Re: Xinerama support

On 2007-01-22, Bruce Stephens <bruce+ion-HpBJwjOt1muTY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected]> wrote:
> So I use two monitors.  Alternatives would be a bigger screen, and
> that would work fine, I expect.  Obviously printing things out, though
> it's handy to have searchable things, and I routinely refer to quite a
> lot of material.  Or switching between workspaces, of course.  It's
> just that much more convenient just to have another monitor.

Actually, it's not so much about the size of the screen. I don't find
19" 4:3 offers anything over 17" 4:3 at the same resolution, or even
a slightly bigger resolution (e.g. 1600x1200 vs. 1280x1024... which would
be more of an enhancement on a 17" screen than between 19" and 17", but not
much of enhancement in either case, as both resolutions are still so poor). 
It's more about the shape. There's horizontally a bit of space left in 
the field of vision after a 4:3 screen, that a widescreen display should
fill. You can comfortably fit two A4 papers on a widescreen display, 
wasting less resources than multihead, that normally will have a lot 
of screen space outside your field of vision.

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