Kind of off topic, but I'd love to know what people think of running a single high quality 24 inch LCD display at 1920x1200 versus running 2 20 inch displays at 1680x1050.
I have the later setup (2 x 20"@ 1680x1050) and it works, no doubt about it. But its not like having a single display because the space isn't contiguous. I tend to use one display as my main work area and the other for the off the side stuff. It would be nicer if it was all one area.
However, one thing I do really like about the dual monitor setup is that one gets two windows,ie if one maximizes an application on one of the screens, it expands to fill that screen and only that screen.
I'm wondering if its possible to have 2 windows in a single display under KDE4.x Is there a way to set half the display up to be one window and half to be another window ? With a 1920x1200 display, each window could be 960x1200.
I'd love to hear what other neat window/display things can be done in KDE4.x that I don't know about.
I think one can run each display as a separate Linux session. I've never done that. If one does this, can one copy and paste data between the two ?
Thanks
Linuxguy123 wrote:
I'm wondering if its possible to have 2 windows in a single display under KDE4.x Is there a way to set half the display up to be one window and half to be another window ? With a 1920x1200 display, each window could be 960x1200.
Well, you can just adjust the window width with the mouse. Maximize the windows, then resize them, one from the right, one from the left. They'll snap together.
But if you want KWin to automatically tile your windows, then no, as far as I know it currently can't do that. There are specialized window managers which work that way, but they won't integrate as well into KDE as KWin does. And strict automatic tiling also has its drawbacks, e.g. dialog boxes get a size forced on them which they aren't necessarily designed for.
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