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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
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