Re: Shit-or-rama [Was: mod_xinerama]
Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]>
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On 2008-09-22, Samuel Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote: >> 20:25 <tuomov> use plain old x multihead >> 20:25 <xxx> then i can't move windows between workspaces. > > What? It worked wonderfully for me for ages until I moved and cut > down. Now synergy provides that illusion very nicely... X artificially forbids window reparents between root windows. It might've made sense back in the day, when one might've been runing a big high-resolution B&W display and a smaller colour display, but these days it doesn't; in practise most combinations will use a TrueColor visual with the exact same bit depths. It would make sense to remove that restrictions (see [1] for details), but the fuckwits and dickheads working on X are instead pushing the Xinerama-style braindamage that only offers multiple views to a single-head model, instead of a proper multi-head model. > Even the xinerama devs know it's shit, thus the coming of XRandR. Xrandr 1.2 is exactly the same shit is Xinerama, as explained in "The downfall of X" [1] already linked. Xrandr 1.1 worked with traditional X multihead, Xrandr 1.2 only works with Xinerama-style model-less view-only braindamage. [1]: http://iki.fi/tuomov/b/archives/2008/07/13/T18_03_06/ -- Tuomo