Re: Mixed dual-monitor setup: too weird?

* Reid Priedhorsky <reid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2006-06-12 02:28]:
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:20:08 +0200, Philippe De Ryck wrote:

On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:23 -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
Hi folks,

I'm contemplating a dual-monitor setup consisting of a 1280x1024
LCD and a 1024x768 LCD. There's a couple of sources of oddity
here: the difference
^^^ doh! this should be "CRT"

in resolution and the different display technologies.

Why would that be weird? Of course, you won't have two identical
screens or a symmetric setup, but that works just fine. I am
talking about two separate screens in the config, not xinerama or
other stuff. That's how I use it and how I like it.

Well, it seems I made an error: the smaller screen would be a CRT,
not an LCD. :/ I was thinking of stuff like text smoothing, which is
best done differently on the two types of screens, but I've not seen
any setups where one screen uses subpixel rendering and the other
doesn't -- especially using Xinerama, which is important. I need to
be able to move windows from screen to screen.

I'm not sure if it's of much help, but I have a dual-monitor setup w/
my laptop having a CRT connected through a KVM as a second screen.
I'm just mirroring the laptop's screen to the CRT, but everything
works fine. I'd imagine merging would work OK too.


- Felix

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