Separate X Screens - possible on Intel Integrated HD Graphics?

[Ken Taylor]

On 01/17/2016 10:05 AM, rhkramer at gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, January 17, 2016 08:10:38 AM you wrote:
>> The usual pattern is that people ask about multiple screens but do not
>> really want them. Having multiple screens only limits what you can do
>> and gives you no meaningful benefits.
> On my previous system (which I used for about 5 years) I used multiple screens
> (driven by an NVidia card) to great benefit.  My current system (started using
> about 6 months ago) has a 32" monitor so I no longer feel the need for
> multiple screens.
>
> On some of the industrial (process control) systems I've been responsible for,
> we put up to 4 monitors (with different displays) driven by one computer in
> front of a single operator.
>
> I have to admit that the Linux / X window (and successor) terminology
> confurses me--when I say multiple screens, I mean multiple monitors driven by
> a single PC and different content on each, and, ideally (but not always the
> case) the ability to move content between displays and copy and paste to and
> from each.
>
> To say that nobody can get any meaningful benefits from multiple screens (or
> from anything else) implies a degree of omniscience (sp?) that I'm not sure
> you have.
>
> I probably should have written this and filed it in my drafts folder, but
> sometimes I don't do what is best for myself.  ;-)
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Thanks rhkramer,

I appreciate the vote of confidence.  Perhaps "separate X screens" is 
something which only a small percentage of user are multi-tasking enough 
to take advantage of. However, I am one of them. I do appreciate 
assistance and suggestions from other users as to how to accomplish what 
I am working on.  I do not necessarily appreciate being told I do not 
want to do what I want to do.

As to a HUGE monitor... I had thought about that. I could run 4 virtual 
machines each taking up 1/4 of the display.  But I just purchases two 
nice Dell 24" Ultrasharp 19:10 aspect ratio monitors. The left one is 
vertical and the right one horizontal. The vertical one is usually 
divided in half - Thunderbird on the top half and a virtual machine 
connected to my secure email at protonmail.ch on the bottom. I call up 
Firefox when I need it over top of the two or I may switch to another 
workspace first. On the right monitor I often have several things going 
on 3 or 4 workspaces.

Ken