[Parti-discuss] multiheaded display

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
>> Here's an interesting (for some value of interesting) use case.
>>
>> I start an xpra on my laptop, so that I can view the session on my
>> desktop.  My desktop is dual-headed though, and before using xpra, I
>> used to ssh into the laptop and through the magic of ssh X forwarding
>> used to open windows on both screens of my desktop display.
>>
>> How could I achieve the same with xpra?
>
> If you have a modern Xinerama/RANDR-style dual-head setup, then it
> should just work. (In fact, this is basically one of the core
> advantages of xpra over VNC for me, its ability for one session to
> display comfortable on wildly varying client screen sizes.) If you
> have a classic two-SCREEN-style dual-head setup, then xpra would need
> some extra code, and it's likely not worth it since quote no-one
> unquote uses multiple SCREENs anymore.

Oh, right -- you could also just start two xpra servers, and attach
one to each screen. This would be a bit clunky, but only in the ways
that multiple screens are already clunky, I think.

-- Nathaniel