Bug#612304: How many new profiles

[Thomas Thorne]

> With a decent window manager and xinerama like setup, that is supposed to work quite well. You only get one display, but the window manager can manage them independently. I can only name one that allows that (awesome), but I'm pretty sure some others do as well.

Thanks for the pointer, I found this thread which seems to give a simple looking beginners guide to getting awesome working so I might give that a go sometime when I have some spare time.  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=678902 :-)  Looks like it should be, well awesome.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Hommey [mailto:mh at glandium.org] 
Sent: 08 February 2011 09:58
To: Thomas Thorne; 612304 at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#612304: How many new profiles

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:15:47AM +0000, Thomas Thorne wrote:
> > The problem is that using different profiles is not really what most
> people would expect, so doing that automatically is confusing.
> 
> I can see that it would be confusing and asking for a bug of "my left screen has the correct homepage but when I load on my right screen it goes to a page about iceweasel".  I guess it is a fundamental part of the firefox system that only one instance of it can connect to a profile and that all the many window or tabs are really just that one instance.  Only when you have it on a separate X display it must be a different instance as there is no way of running the windowing system across them (unless KDE does it but I am not desperate enough to start using that yet).  
> 
> The problem is that when I don't use separate profiles I get the same message about "already running...".  I guess I have work around for now and I can accept that from the iceweasel end at least there is nothing that can be really done to improve my situation without confusing others.  
> 
> > Anyways, I thought these zaphod type setups were being deprecated?
> 
> I am not sure there are many options if you want to render OpenGL to multiple displays unless you can communicate from your windowing engine into the OpenGL system in such a way that you can construct a separate viewpoint for each head and then assign each viewpoint to a full screen on each display.  
> 
> What I wanted to use it for was to have independent multiple desktops on each head so that I can keep two or three task going and visible without having to clear what is in my main display.  If there is a way to do that without the zaphod system then I am happy enough but with machines getting more powerful, graphics cards supporting more outputs and displays getting cheaper I would think that more people would be using them in a variety of ways.  

With a decent window manager and xinerama like setup, that is supposed
to work quite well. You only get one display, but the window manager can
manage them independently. I can only name one that allows that
(awesome), but I'm pretty sure some others do as well.

Mike