der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> writes:

> > in which case there'd be one large "desktop" spread across the two
> > monitors?
> 
> No, I've never seen this.  I've heard that there exist X servers which
> can weld multiple displays into one X screen, but have never seen one.
> To be sure, I've never gone looking, because in my case the displays
> are heterogenous (cg6 and bw2), so even if the software did exist, it
> would mean some kind of compromise I don't want to make.
> 
> Given what I know of the X Consortium sample server, I believe I could
> build a ddx layer that split a single root across two identical
> framebuffers.  It wouldn't be very performant, though. :-)

The string you're looking for is "Xinerama".  I don't know what it can
do as heterogenous displays go, but I've seen it work on two identical
heads (on NetBSD/i386).

--Jed

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