[compiz] Re: Multi Head Cube rotation

Colin Guthrie gmane at colin.guthr.ie
Thu Nov 9 03:14:18 PST 2006


Gerte Hoogewerf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I pulled compiz from GIT yesterday to see if I could get proper
> multi-head support. I think the current status is great, but I have
> one little suggestion to make.
> The current behavior is that we have two viewpoints of the "cube"
> (it's more like a body with eight side planes now). If it's rotated
> one step we skip one of the planes. Rotating four times is enough to
> go round exactly once. Is it possible to decrease this stepsize, so we
> can rotate the body in eight steps?
> I.E. When having two monitors rotating one step will shift the
> contents of one monitor to the other. :)
> 
> Keep up the good work!

I guess that could be an option but I think the main problem there is
that your screen may be of mixed resolution and that would cause a lot
of problems. I'm guessing you've got both your heads onthe same
resolution? For this scenario, perhaps such an option can be added? (I'm
not a dev, just pointing out the current reasoning (as I understand it))

Col.



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