Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
> 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.
I don't know that I agree with Nathaniel's recommendation. Tiled window
managers do a lot of neat things, and are worth checking out, but I
don't think they solve your problem specifically.
XRandR might be able to be coaxed into doing what you want. You also
might be able to get Compiz to display 3 workspaces across 2 monitors.
--CJD