[ale] OT: Lift up your monitors

[Wolf Halton]

I use a stacked dual monitor with my laptop and a larger monitor on top at
home and horizontal duo at work, the latter rig is on 4" high stands with
separate keyboard and mouse between.
I kinda miss the multihead capabilities of a desktop tower form factor.

Wolf Halton
http://sourcefreedom.com
Apache developer:
wolfhalton at apache.org
On Oct 15, 2012 8:45 PM, "Mike Harrison" <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Damon Chesser wrote:
> > I have often wondered about that use of dual heads.  Can you copy from
> > left to right, ie, different desktops?  Of course you can with an
> > extended desktop, but can you with dual desktops?
>
> As with many things Linux, the answer is complicated and depends on your
> exact configuration:
>
> Usually a left and right monitor are part of the same overall desktop.
> and everything works like one big monitor. Cut/Paste/Drag/Drop all work as
> one. Applications all see it as one big Monitor, Enlightenment seems to do
> a better job of maximizing to a screen that Ubuntu 10.04/Gnome wich
> maximizes to both.
>
> My main desktop runs three monitors, the bottom two are on one video card
> and a top left one is on different card. The third runs a bit like a
> seperate computer (but it is not); Cut and paste work from it to the
> others, but you can not drag and drop apps, or run them in each.
>
> I typically run Twinkle, Skype, a music player (vlc, streamtuner..
> etc.. )and Chrome in my top left monitor, and xterm, Firefox and
> Evolution on my bottom desktop / dual heads.
>
> My laptop and another desktop I use are both running dual's on Bodhi
> (Ubuntu + Enlightenment) and they seem to have a different paradigm that I
> am slowly falling on love with.
>
> But yes, cut/paste/etc.. all just works. really well.
>
>
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