Re: What about Matchbox and Xinerama ?

Hi;

Dual screens is something Im really interested in but have never had any
hardware like this ( I have a DS but afaik they dont run X yet ? ). 

I think with Xnest you *can* simulate multiple screens by providing
multiple -screen arguments or something. I've been meaning to add this
kind of support into Xephyr for ages - it would actually be pretty east
to do just alot of refactoring around internally to actually handle
multiple screens.

Anyway to make current MB support multiple screens will be a major PITA.
The easiest way todo this I think is to run two MB's, one on each screen
and have some kind of proxy app with uses EWMH foo to communicate and
control each in sync. 

Multiple screen support is planned for MB II however. But at current
rate it will be a while before that becomes use-able.

Hope that helps a bit;

  -- Matthew 

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 17:42 +0200, Bignaux Ronan wrote:
> Hello ,
> 
> I would like to use Matchbox on a dual LCD screen Arm device ( not yet
> developed , perharps my study case could help also for the dslinux
> project ? ) . For the moment , i use Xnest to emulate and build the User
> environment . The +xinerama argument of Xnest clone the window and not
> provide a real independant window ( i dont find relevant information
> about that ). Any feed back about experience with matchbox and xinerama
> will be apprecied . Where the support should be add if this it's not
> done ? I think in matchbox-window-manager to choose if maximize should
> be done on the 2 screens ( for an application that can split itself the
> screen , like firefox Split screen extention for example ) or only one
> screen , in the matchbox-panel too.
> 
> Greets , Ronan. 
> 
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