[compiz] Dual-screen compiz mostly working

[Christopher Halse Rogers]

On 8/1/07, Mick Semb Wever <mick at wever.org> wrote:
> 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).
>
A quick search of the archives gives:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2007-May/002165.html as
the link you are after.  Read the warning :).