am I the only one still using separate X Screens? After years of fiddling around back in the "good ol'" gnome 2 days, I finally found a layout I liked, which allowed me to use two screens, which are not both all the time connected but sometimes come together and which worked with fullscreen applications too.
This was great until gnome 3 came along. Now Gnome 3 doesn't seem to have any interest to work with separate X Screens but wants you to use randr or xinerama or an exteded desktop or whatever. That made me an XFCE fugitive.
But XFCE is starting to look somewhat old and I really enjoy using Cinnamon on a single screen (when the second monitor isn't plugged in that is) - it doesn't seem to work with separate X Screens though (crashes on log-in).
Now I just thought I'd pop in to ask if there's a plan to change that now that Cinnamon is completely separated from GNome 3.
I'm running Arch with Cinnamon 2 and a very basic xorg.conf
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "amdcccle Layout"
Screen 0 "amdcccle-Screen[1]-0" 1280 0
Screen "amdcccle-Screen[1]-1" 0 0
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-DFP5"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x720"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-DFP7"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "amdcccle-Device[1]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Monitor-DFP7" "0-DFP7"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "amdcccle-Device[1]-1"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Monitor-DFP5" "0-DFP5"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "amdcccle-Screen[1]-0"
Device "amdcccle-Device[1]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "amdcccle-Screen[1]-1"
Device "amdcccle-Device[1]-1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Now I love XBMC and it's pretty much the main reason I need separate X screens because it just needs to have one to itself in fullscreen. (and also my tv has some weird asymetrical over-/underscan issues which are easier to compensate that way)
I can'T be the only one, can I?