Re: Xinerame ?

[Wilhelm Person <wilper-8 at ludd dot luth dot se>]

Downloaded and installed it.  Isn't free, the version on the page is a
30-day trial $20 for one without a nag screen.

Anyway.. It appears to work with Cygwin, but I had some problems when
running XFree86 in fullscreen mode on win2k (fullscreen doesn't work with
the virtual desktops very well it seems.)

/W



On Fri, 10 May 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Someone recently put me on to "Virtual Desktop" which is free ($) software
> that might interest those with a craving for screen real estate (there
> never is enough, is there?). Neither of us has tried it with XFree86,
> however, so if someone here does, please report your experiences to the list.
>
>          <http://www.enablesoftware.com/>
>
> Virtual Desktop is the last item listed on the page.
>
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
>
>
>
> At 13:32 2002-05-10, Harold L Hunt wrote:
> >Philippe,
> >
> >As far as I know, Xinerama provides multiple screen support for
> >XFree86.  I was never able to find much documentation about
> >Xinerama.  However, *you* need to explain to *me* why using XFree86's
> >hardware-level multiple screen support would provide any benefit (or even
> >make sense) for Cygwin/XFree86, which has no direct access to the hardware.
> >
> > From what I know about Xinerama (and I could be missing something about
> > Xinerama) it has absolutely no application to Cygwin/XFree86.
> >
> >Harold
> >
> >
> >Philippe Bastiani <philippe.bastiani@wanadoo.fr> said:
> >
> > > Why Xinerama seems not supported by Cygwin/XFree86 ?
> > >
> > > I found no reference to the library relating to this XFree86 feature...
> > >
> > > Philippe Bastiani
>

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