Re: Best supported and rendering card

[John Baab <john dot baab at gmail dot com>]

On 9/29/05, EmIscA <emisca at rocketmail dot com> wrote:
> Are you using multimonitor mode (a desktop and kicker bar for each
> monitor)?
> I have some problems with window managers (I tried kde 3.3.2, gnome 2.8and
> 2.10). Now I use kde which is the best compromise. Perhaps, the second
> screen has desktop ans kicker not localized, and icons don't maintain the
> same ordering and position when I restart KDE... If I copy with konqueror
> some files the status window is displayed in the other monitor.
> Gnome has problems with the second systray and many little bugs..
> Another thing is that you can't migrate a window to the other screen in
> any way.. or I don't know how. Does anybody know how?
I am using "big desktop" mode (or something along the lines of that) and
gnome. Basically I have 2 panels streatching across the top and bottom of
the sreens, the same panels cover both screens. Then I can drag and drop
between the screens, but I run into the problems that I described above
where windows like to fill both screens but can only render on one. I
believe with your setup you are actually running 2 seperate xwindows
sessions, and they cannot interact with each other, which is why you cannot
drag between the 2. A cross between the multimonitor mode and big desktop
mode would leave us with something similiar to xinerama, which would be
nice, but unfortunatly your stuck with a choice between the 2, or giing with
xinerama and leaving behind 3D support.

BTW the ati config script works well with my dual monitor setup, I just
answer the questions it asks and it works out of the box.

-John