On Sunday, 29 December 2002 at 13:23:49 -0700, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> "Jeff Flowers" <jeffrey@jeffreyf.net>  wrote:
>> I have just be given a second monitor from a friend who wanted a flat-screen
>> LCD screen for his Windows box. I think that it would be cool to run X with
>> two monitors but I have never seen this done before.
>>
> I find it's better to use x2x and use 2 different systems. I have a dual-headed
> sparc and a single-headed PC on my desk at work. I use x2x between the sparc
> and the PC so I have 1 keyboard, 1 mouse, and 3 heads on 2 hosts.

I am currently using both x2x and multi-headed X, a total of four
systems and 7 displays.  See
http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-dec2002.html#20.  Multiple heads on
one machine are a lot easier to handle.  I frequently find that the
modifier keys get confused between the different systems.

> Most people, when they first see my desk, 

Photos?

> think I'm some sort of whore, but then I remind them that
> manufacturers rarely print databooks anymore and force you to either
> print 800 pages yourself, or look at the PDF, and there's just no
> substitute for having a databook open with your code in front of
> you.

Certainly it makes life easier.  I wrote some documentation for my
wife recently about how to write web pages with images in them.  That
was a web page, of course, and she ran into trouble simply because she
had to juggle xv, the instruction web page and the web page she was
building.  On a multi-screen display that wouldn't be a problem.

> Now if only I could take a monitor into the can with me, life would
> almost be as good as when people still printed stuff on paper.

Well, I can take the left-most monitor with me.  But there's still no
complete substitute for paper.

Greg
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