Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:08:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter Message-ID: <19980408150849.45215@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199804080430.XAA08113@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 11:30:59PM -0500 References: <grog@lemis.com> <199804080430.XAA08113@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Tue, 7 April 1998 at 23:30:59 -0500, David Kelly wrote: > Greg Lehey writes: >> On Tue, 7 April 1998 at 22:05:12 -0500, David Kelly wrote: >>> How so? Personally I never had more than 4 monitors on one Mac. Decided >>> I was getting irradiated too much. Installation was trivial, simply >>> plugged another Nubus card in, connected the monitor, and on power up >>> the Mac guessed where to put the new monitor in relationship to the >>> others. A little shuffling around in the Monitors Control Panel informed >>> the Mac where I had phyically placed the new one in relation to the >>> others. >> >> How did you arrange them? I have a 20" monitor I would like to add to >> my machine, but I can't figure out where to put it. > > Had the two 19" monitors side by side. > > (snip) Ah, your requirements are different. I currently have a 17" on the floor below the desk to my left, but I only turn it on if the system it is connected to feels unhappy. Otherwise I have the 2 21" monitors side by side, and I wouldn't want to spread them. The only possibility I can think of is to put the third (20") above, but that would mean looking a long way up. > Have never used a multi-headed X server. How does it establish the > relationship between monitors? unix:0.0 and unix:0.1. The config file contains a section for each monitor, and the numbers are assigned in the order in which they appear in the config file. > How do you move the mouse from one to the next? Sideways. There's a sideways wraparound. This makes virtual screens (larger display than glass, and panning) a real pain, if it wasn't before. Otherwise, though, it runs fine. > On the Mac, the mouse simply slides from monitor to monitor. That's the way. > If there is not a monitor adjacent to the edge you try to move the > mouse off, then the mouse doesn't move off the desktop. XiG has (or had, at the time) wraparound. I don't think it's a good idea, and I said so to Thomas Röll, who agreed and said he was going to change it. > Fun thing to do is split a window between multiple monitors. Type > right off one monitor onto the next. If one wants to see what > something looked like in monochrome and color, that window could be > placed half on one, half on the other, for instant results. :-) XiG can't (couldn't) do that. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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