[compiz] multiscreen

[Sam Spilsbury]

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> On 13-01-09 09:12 AM, Sam Spilsbury wrote:
>> Hi Brian
>
> Hi Sam,
>
>> Support for one instance managing multiple screens was removed in
>> 0.9.0,
>
> Oh, that's a pity.

It introduced too much maintenance overhead. Every plugin had to be
aware of the multi-screen case and the APIs functioned around
multi-screen, even though very few people use this configuration.

>
>> but I think you can manage more than one screen by using
>> separate instances as you've done.
>
> Yeah.  It does work.  Seems less efficient though having two instances
> of compiz and decorators running.  Also, configuration options are not
> shared so you end up having to configure them both individually with the
> same settings.
>
>> I'm not sure what the state of multiscreen settings are. I don't think
>> they have been supported for quite some time. In my opinion, we should
>> probably just remove that dropdown. I don't think there's a very good
>> usecase for having per-screen settings, especially now that we have
>> one compiz instance per screen.
>
> However that's resolved, having to copy configuration from one instance
> of the configuration manager to another, especially when you are not
> allowed to run one on each screen, side-by-side, is more than just a
> little annoying.  :-(

They should be shared between the two screens. I'll file a bug about
it so I remember to get to it.

>
> Thanks for the info.  Appreciate your time.

No problem. Glad to see you are getting the most out of compiz.

Best.

>
> Cheers,
> b.
>
>
>
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Sam Spilsbury