Comments on: Dual Monitors http://www.meryl.net/2006/06/13/dual-monitors/ Content on writing, tech, business, marketing, web design. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:52:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: anders http://www.meryl.net/2006/06/13/dual-monitors/comment-page-1/#comment-1608 anders Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:06:38 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2006/06/13/dual-monitors/#comment-1608 <p>yep. when they gave me a second monitor at work, i cursed them because after a couple days i <em>had</em> to go out and buy a second monitor for my home system. now, i can't stand working on a single monitor.</p> <p>i've also found that the Xinerama support that is available for linux/X11 which lets the windowing system and applications be aware of the dual-monitor setup is vastly superior to the "stretched" mode that most systems use. in particular, the Ion window manager with Xinerama is the greatest thing to happen to dual-monitor setups ever and pretty much has to be used to understand the sublime awesomeness.</p> yep. when they gave me a second monitor at work, i cursed them because after a couple days i had to go out and buy a second monitor for my home system. now, i can’t stand working on a single monitor.

i’ve also found that the Xinerama support that is available for linux/X11 which lets the windowing system and applications be aware of the dual-monitor setup is vastly superior to the “stretched” mode that most systems use. in particular, the Ion window manager with Xinerama is the greatest thing to happen to dual-monitor setups ever and pretty much has to be used to understand the sublime awesomeness.

]]> By: H.A. Page http://www.meryl.net/2006/06/13/dual-monitors/comment-page-1/#comment-937 H.A. Page Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:42:27 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2006/06/13/dual-monitors/#comment-937 <p>When I started working on my masters in media studies, I started working on two monitors. I'm away from home for a lot of the summer now and it is driving me bats trying to work off of one right now.</p> <p>Two is definately the way to go!!! Cheers.</p> When I started working on my masters in media studies, I started working on two monitors. I’m away from home for a lot of the summer now and it is driving me bats trying to work off of one right now.

Two is definately the way to go!!!
Cheers.

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