#2 Desktop spanning multiple screens sought.
2007-12-25 9:07:00
even more people dropped in, with additional suggestions. Here the
updated Summary, you may delete the previous one.
The most common answer was X/BigX from xsoftware, to be found at
http://www.x-software.com/Software/Xbig/
Another Package which does the same is Quadrate from OilField
Systems, which seems to be a little bit cheaper. To be found at
In this context also PCS (http://www.pcs.co.uk/) was mentioned
twice as distributor.
And at last, there was a Free utility mentioned: xmove from the
X11R6 Distribution, but this one is in beta since '97. To be found at
ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/pub/xmove/
Other suggestions: Reflection X (this is a PC X-Server, not what I
was looking for), and Parallax Video Cards including Drivers.
There were also several people under the impression, that I had
problems with getting a dual-headed config to run. Well I can assure
you, we have run Dual-Headed setup for years, and are still running
under Solaris 2.[356], SunOS 4.1 using CDE and mwm/tdesktop.
But none of those allow you to move Windows from one screen to
another, the screens are separated from the application's perspective.
Thanx to:
Dieter Gobbers <gobbers@faw.uni-ulm.de>
Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com>
stafforj@core.afcc.com (Johnie Stafford)
"Day, David" <david.day@sous.com>
"Brandon K. Devlin" <bdevlin@ink.org>
steve_turgeon_at_putnam@putnaminv.com
"Howard Boggs" <hboggs@bridgept.com>
Mike Fletcher <mfletcher@iss.net>
Jason Marshall <jasonm@vsl.com>
Josef Sachs <sachs@cyb.org>
Steve Butterfield <steve.butterfield@pcs.co.uk>
Original question:
> I searched the whole lot, but didn't find the exact solution, so we
> reiterate again:
>
> A User requested to have a single Desktop (under Solaris 2.6),
> similar to our Dual-Headed NT Machines, where the desktop spans
> both Screens (with all assorted nasties, that arise from this setup).
>
> I know, this is quite tricky, since the usual setup is to have a X-
> Server per screen, and a Desktop per screen.
>
> I know that there is at least one commercial solution for this, but
> cannot recall the name/manufacturer. The solution doesn't have to be
> CDE, it just has to work :-)
>
> TIA, will summarize,
>
> -daniel
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