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When was the last time you used KDE? For me KDE always opens windows on the same monitor as the mouse, and has for at least several releases. This is an option, you can change it, but I am pretty sure that is the default.
Further, the two screens have entirely separate desktops, with independent icons, widgets, wallpapers, even the desktop type can be different. It possible, even in theory, for icons to shift from one desktop to the other.
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Originally posted by elanthis View PostSweet. Now if only GNOME, KDE, XFCE, E, or any other Linux desktop actually managed to use multi-monitor desktops properly. It seems all of them want to treat your desktop as a single spanned display with maybe some half-assed thought put into limiting the panel to a single display.
What do you expect more?
Originally posted by elanthis View PostNew windows are just as likely to pop up on your secondary, head-craning-required, not-even-turned-on display as they are to appear on the main display (in which the action that caused the window to open took place).
Originally posted by elanthis View PostDesktop icons are usually sorted to the wrong place.
Originally posted by elanthis View PostThe desktop bars default to left-most monitors usually.
Originally posted by elanthis View PostHell, GDM is even so ****ing stupid as to place the greeter window and panel on whichever monitor the cursor is currently on, including a "race condition" that allows the greeter to show up on one display and the panel to show up on another.
Originally posted by elanthis View PostMeanwhile, WinXP and Win7 both Just Work(tm) exactly the way you'd expect things to.
Originally posted by elanthis View PostI don't get it. Multiple monitors are practically a necessity for many programming tasks, particularly those that deal with the whole desktop. How come nobody in the Linux desktop world has bothered to implement support for them properly?
Originally posted by elanthis View PostOh, and just to top it off, the Linux r600 driver lists my displays in reverse order of Windows, so whenever I change OSes I need to swap cables to get the monitor that's actually in front of my face to be the primary display. Lovely.Code:xrandr --output XXX --primary
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Sweet. Now if only GNOME, KDE, XFCE, E, or any other Linux desktop actually managed to use multi-monitor desktops properly. It seems all of them want to treat your desktop as a single spanned display with maybe some half-assed thought put into limiting the panel to a single display. New windows are just as likely to pop up on your secondary, head-craning-required, not-even-turned-on display as they are to appear on the main display (in which the action that caused the window to open took place). Desktop icons are usually sorted to the wrong place. The desktop bars default to left-most monitors usually. Hell, GDM is even so ****ing stupid as to place the greeter window and panel on whichever monitor the cursor is currently on, including a "race condition" that allows the greeter to show up on one display and the panel to show up on another.
Meanwhile, WinXP and Win7 both Just Work(tm) exactly the way you'd expect things to.
I don't get it. Multiple monitors are practically a necessity for many programming tasks, particularly those that deal with the whole desktop. How come nobody in the Linux desktop world has bothered to implement support for them properly?
Oh, and just to top it off, the Linux r600 driver lists my displays in reverse order of Windows, so whenever I change OSes I need to swap cables to get the monitor that's actually in front of my face to be the primary display. Lovely.
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How is this better? There's nothing preventing an X11 driver from doing exactly the same thing to implement RandR's multi-screen support.
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Originally posted by TheBlackCat View PostDoes these mean they will avoid the annoying issue that X11 has with mice getting lost in invisible areas in multi-monitor setups (like when you have monitors of different resolutions)?
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Does these mean they will avoid the annoying issue that X11 has with mice getting lost in invisible areas in multi-monitor setups (like when you have monitors of different resolutions)?
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Wayland Looks To Do Multi-Monitor The Right Way
Phoronix: Wayland Looks To Do Multi-Monitor The Right Way
Two weeks ago the hot discussion item being talked about by those interested in the Wayland Display Server was how to handle input with Wayland (e.g. using X Input, create a separate "Inland" input project, or designing something entirely different). The new subject now brought up on the Wayland mailing list is how to handle multiple monitor support. Fortunately, it looks like Kristian plans to implement multiple monitor/display support in a different -- and better -- way than how it's dealt with by the X.Org Server...
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