__/ [ Jim ] on Monday 24 July 2006 13:12 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> __/ [ Jim ] on Monday 24 July 2006 12:24 \__
>>
>>> Brad wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:29:49 +0000, Jim wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>> it's fan-bloody-tastic on a triple-head setup. You can rotate screens
>>>>> and bring the one you want to work on to the centre one, and monitor or
>>>>> whatever on the other two. Great for doing five things at once. (I do
>>>>> my email/news, IRC, torrents, browsing, dev work etc on seperate
>>>>> screens - 6 in all, and rotate focus using one of the media keyboard
>>>>> hotkey pairs (specifically, >> and <<); this still means I can move my
>>>>> focus between any of three screens, and work on any screen, but my main
>>>>> focus screen is the centre one. Highly practical).
>>>>
>>>> I only have one monitor. :-(
>>>>
>>>> Brad
>>>
>>> Bummer.
>>
>> One can be good too. Here's one which I saw a few days ago:
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexkingorg/193461561/
>>
>> It gives you a spatial clue. I wonder how Compiz/XGL, for example, will
>> respond to such high resolution.
>
> It does good at 3072x768 (1024x768 per desktop), tho expectedly a little
> jerky at times, which I think is only to be expected from Alpha software
> running at such an unusual configuration. It'll only get better, I'm sure.
Either you have a strong graphics card (OpenGL working in multi-head used to
be tricky some years ago) or you deliberately lower the resolution from
something such as (potentially) 4800x3600 pixels. Also have a look at:
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-computer-setups
Makes us all envy... *smile* These people spend a lot of time and dough on
their workspace. Evidently!
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