Xinerama dead? If not, Xinerama and Compiz-Fusion?

Hal V. Engel hvengel at astound.net
Wed Feb 20 21:27:10 PST 2008


On Wednesday 20 February 2008 21:15:47 Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 23:31 +0100, Maarten Maathuis wrote:
> > On 2/20/08, Rui Tiago Cação Matos <tiagomatos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 20/02/2008, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >  > Hello,
> > >  >
> > >  >  I've been reading threads all day regarding the use of Xinerama. 
> > >  > I've been using TwinView (GeForce 7600GT) but it had some quarks.  I
> > >  > have 2 different size monitors, 1 19" square (1600x1200) and 1 19"
> > >  > wide (1440x900) connected to the DVI ports on the card.  With
> > >  > Twinview there was no way to have both monitors at their max
> > >  > resolution, instead the wide had a resolution of 1440x1200 and
> > >  > "panned" up and down.
> > >
> > > You can put twinview no work without panning. Check the docs.
> > >
> > >  >  So, enough background... The threads I've been following seem to
> > >  >  suggest Xinerama has been replaced with xRandr2?  If so, how do I
> > >  >  "switch"?
> > >
> > > Current nvidia driver does not support randr 1.2. Go bug nvidia about
> > > that.
> > >
> > >
> > >  Rui
>
> and Xinerama with Compiz-Fusion works ?
>
> Regards,

No it does not.  In my case I need to be able to calibrate my monitors for 
color critical work.  So I can either have TwinView which supports 
Compiz-Fusion or calibrated monitors but not both with the proprietary nvidia 
drivers.   So for me no Compiz-Fusion.

Hal



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