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> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> "Tom Shelton" <tom_shelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>> On 2008-09-11, Subway steel <foo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>>>> Enhancing multi-screen user interfaces using Ghosd and Synergy
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>>>>>
>>>>> I have run and tried multi-head displays with Windows. It works fine
>>>>> and
>>>>> is
>>>>> incredibly easy to setup.
>>>>>
>>>>> Windows has supported multiple monitors 'out of the box' since
>>>>> Windows-98.
>>>>> What part of this article is supposed to impress people?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I was sort of wondering that myself. I've been running muli-head for
>>>> quite a
>>>> while on windows, yet I've never gotten a statisfactory result on Linux.
>>>> Maybe they will finally get a good multi-head story.
>>>
>>> The part of the subject line that reads "Try *that* with Win32/OSX"
>>> really
>>> caught my attention. OSX is where I saw my first demo of multiple
>>> monitors.
>>> Does Roy actually think that Linux innovated this or something?
>>>
>>> I never used multiple monitors with Win98 but started using them with
>>> Win2k
>>> at work because it made it really easy to debug GUI apps. Debugger in
>>> monitor and the GUI app in the other. I've run dual monitors at home for
>>> a
>>> few years now. I did manage to get it working with SUSE Linux but it
>>> definitely was not a project for the faint of heard. Numerous tweaks to
>>> xorg.conf were needed and now that it works I'm afraid to touch it
>>> because
>>> of the pain.
>>>
>>> In Windows it was trivial. I don't know the exact number but I think that
>>> WinXP can handle about 9 or 12 monitors. Arranging them is easy to
>>> because
>>> from the Display Properties panel you can arrange the monitors by simply
>>> "dragging" them to their physical location.
>>>
>>> *EASY* connection and configuration of multiple monitors has been
>>> available
>>> in OSX and Windows for about a decade now. The "Try *that with ...."
>>> headline shows just how far out of touch with reality some people are.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqB01Cp_wPM
>
> - "Quake 3 on 24 monitors."
>
> Okay... and with XP out of the box you can easily run up to 16 monitors. Are
> people not going to use Windows because it only supports 16 monitors? Unless
> this is some sort of practical limitation then it has no bearing on users.
> (The most I've ever seen anyone use is 4 monitors and that was only once.)
I typically think of limits as the reason why Linux dominates HPC and even runs
in LHC. It's built shrewdly such that the same Linux (with tweaks) fits both
tiny phones and world's top supercomputers.
>> - --
>> ~~ Best of wishes
>>
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