[compiz] Feature request: Multi-head awareness in compiz and plugins

[Colin Guthrie]

David Reveman wrote:
> With composite extension present, xinerama isn't really useful, all we
> need is support for multiple screens and we can do anything we want with
> these screens in the compositing manager.
> 
> Adding multi-screen support to Xglx is easy, I'll try to get it done
> this week. Making compiz multi-screen aware is some more work but I'll
> start working on this any day now.
> 
> I wont accept any xinerama patches, if you like to use xinerama until
> proper multi-screen support is implemented, you have to patch things.

Until David has completed the "proper" multiscreen stuff. The Quinn CVS 
version of compiz has Xinerama support provided your underlying Xgl also 
has the Xinerama patches. See http://www.compiz.net/ for more info and 
also links to Ubuntu/Deb versions handily prebuilt for you.

These are stop gaps for people who can't live without multi-screen 
support until it's done properly :)

Although I've not looked at the code itself, hopefully the multi-screen 
stuff in Quinn CVS's compiz is somewhat generic and will also work if 
the relevent xinerama routines are replaced with the correct 
multi-screen routines once they are implemented in Xgl then a good 
proportion of the compiz related development may have already been done 
for you David? (fingers crossed - tho' extracting the relevent code may 
be more hassle than it's worth!!).

Col.