[haiku-appserver] Re: Dual-display
- From: "Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-appserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:09:30 GMT
Adi Oanca <adioanca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Mikael Jansson (mailing lists) wrote:
> > Usage scenario:
> > Three monitors available, M1, M2, M3. M1 and M2 forms a wide
> > monitor,
> > called D1 (Display 1). M3 is D2. I use D2 mainly on workspaces 1
> > through 4, which is where I keep mail, web and IRC. D1 is for
> > development, where I need to see output, debugger, documentation
> > and
> > the actual code at the same time. I usually use it with workspaces
> > 5
> > through 8. If I happen to activate workspaces 5 through 8 on D2
> > (low-
> > res), I'll have a large virtual desktop I can use the mouse to pan
> > in.
> > On the other hand, if I use D1 on workspaces 1 through 4, only one
> > of
> > the monitors will be active (at least that's the naive solution.)
> >
> > Is this what you guys had in mind, as well?
>
> Very much yes.
> I have told you, you can have "Displays" that can span multiple
> monitors and you can map/associate workspaces though/to "Displays"
> just
> like you said. However, as I told you the default behavior is for
> every
> "Display" to have 32 Workspaces available.
>
I don't quite understand (perhaps a drawing would help?), but I'm
confident you solve it in a way that's the most beneficial for us BeOS
users and developers.
If not, code can always be rewritten... ;)
--
Mikael Jansson
http://mikael.jansson.be
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