On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet
<nathanael(a)gnat.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This isn't a fedora question specifically, however just thought I'd run it
> by to get some feedback.
>
> I've had a multi-card/multi-monitor setup for a few months now. It has been
> a royal pain. (Only the closed drivers can handle it unfortunately). I was
> talking to the radeon/ati driver people and have been informed that
> multi-card setups don't get much love from either the driver developers or
> upstream/xorg. So I've figured I may move from 3 monitors back to 2 larger
> (24") monitors. So after that history, here comes the idea...
>
> I'm wondering if it is possible to have 'fake' monitor
borders/dimensions.
> So you instruct xorg/gnome/xinerama or whatever that the 1900 pixel width is
> 2/3rd + 1/3rd. If I were to click maximize within either of those imaginary
> borders, it would maximize to that size instead of the 1900 px width. If I
> double clicked, it would then go fullscreen...
>
> Does this sound at all useful? Opinions / critiques...
Sounds like tiling windowmanagers. dwm from
http://suckless.org ?
Does gnome support this? That would be very nice.
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