Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 20:44:08 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter Message-ID: <199804090144.UAA11654@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> of "Wed, 08 Apr 1998 15:08:49 %2B0930." <19980408150849.45215@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey writes: > On Tue, 7 April 1998 at 23:30:59 -0500, David Kelly wrote: > > 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. Reminds me, the RasterOps ClearVue GS/30 19" greyscale system I added to my SE/30 had the outrageous for its day, "virtual desktop with hardware pan and zoom." While its nominal resolution was 1024x768x8 bits one could select 8192x768x1. While the monitor was single-sync and still drew the same picture, moving the mouse off the right edge triggered the hardware panning. Was fun to play with but the mouse strokes were too much on the forearm. There might have been keystrokes to pan, I didn't use it enough to remember. > > On the Mac, the mouse simply slides from monitor to monitor. > > That's the way. However, the additional Mac monitors may be above or below the others. You graphically establish their relationship in the Monitors Control Panel. Its possible to fine tune each monitor's postion down to the pixel. Ends up with one irregular shaped "desktop". Sounds like X implements multiple desktops that are only related by the ability to move the mouse pointer off one onto the other. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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