On 3/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Reveman</b> <<a href="mailto:davidr@novell.com">davidr@novell.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 11:17 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:<br>> Jürg Billeter wrote:<br>> > It probably won't get to CVS. The plan is to let compiz handle multiple<br>> > screens instead of one screen with Xinerama as compositing managers can
<br>> > do everything they want with these screens, according to David.<br>><br>> OK I guess that makes sense. I guess the nVidia driver will need<br>> updating to handle this (I believe there is a problem with GLX on
<br>> multiple screen mode vs. TwinView mode in that you can only use it on<br>> the first screen).<br><br>Xgl don't need this. In the Xglx case, Xorg can run in TwinView mode and<br>Xgl can create multiple screens on this single TwinView screen.
<br><br>><br>> How does it handle the case where lots of applications are compiled with<br>> Xinerama support and they suddenly can't do what they were designed to<br>> do? I know the compositing mgr can do clever things with the multiple
<br>> screens in terms of layout and other gubbins, but surely the<br>> functionality built into 100s of applications will then be lost?? Would<br>> a psuedo Xinerama plugin be created to emulate what the apps expect but
<br>> on a multi-screen backend?<br><br>I don't think there's that many apps that are xinerama aware. Except for<br>the window manager, most apps will work just fine without the xinerama<br>info available. Some xinerama compatibility thing could be created if
<br>necessary.<br><br>-David</blockquote><div><br>Any chance we'll see twinview/xinerama support in compiz anytime soon?<br><br>-Filip<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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