[compiz] Dual-screen compiz mostly working

[Mick Semb Wever]

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:01:45 -0500, Travis Watkins wrote:

Thanks Travis & Christopher!

> >  - my screens must be vertically positioned. Compiz doesn't render the
> > full width when the screens are side by side. Even when vertically
> > position i cannot have the second screen at 1600x1400 for the same 
> >reason.
> > Is this a limitation of compiz? Are there plans to fix/improve it?

> Is a hardware/driver limitation.  You can't have textures larger than
> 2048x2048, and your (total) desktop has to be one texture.

> I think that it is technically possible for Compiz to work around this
> limitation; there was a patch for a copy-mode rendering plugin that
> theoretically could allow a graceful fallback for textures larger than
> the hardware maximum.  I'm not sure if the patch actually had that
> behaviour, and no-one seems to be trying to implement it.

Where can i find this patch or "copy-mode rendering" plugin?
(I'd like to atleast give it a try).

~mck


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