Separate X Screens - possible on Intel Integrated HD Graphics?

[Ken Taylor]

On 01/18/2016 12:06 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> On 17 January 2016 at 17:49, Ken Taylor <di604admin at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> On 01/17/2016 10:05 AM, rhkramer at gmail.com wrote:
>> 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.
> Well, I use multiple monitors with single X screen in pretty much the
> same way - except I can put any of the virtual desktops on any of the
> monitors.
>
> Since you have one portrait and one landscape monitor moving the
> virtual desktops between the two will probably not be flawless. Still
> that does not mean you need to configure the X server in such a way it
> is impossible - you can just not do it.
>
> As has been pointed out the Zaphod options should give you multiple X
> screens but since next to nobody uses these there may be issues. In
> fact, the very article you linked lists multiple issues when using
> multiple monitors with separate screens.
>
> Thanks
>
> Michal
>
I guess I will just stick with Nvidia cards and ignore the Intel graphics