[ale] OT: Lift up your monitors

[damon at damtek.com (Damon Chesser)]

On 10/16/2012 09:05 AM, Mike Harrison wrote:
> The other Mike transmitted:
>> I miss having a configuration where my screens were independent.
>> Xinerama seems to be the painless road, or at least the less painful
>> road, and I have more or less adapted.
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>> If applications sanely supported multiple X screens (e.g., :0.0, :0.1,
>> ..., :0.n), I would be much happier.  I like them being mostly
>> independent, but I do want the ability to "send" a running app from one
>> to the other sometimes without having to quit and re-start it on the
>> other terminal.
> That's how it's working for me on the dual Bodhi setup. I used to be an 
> expert at x.org setting files, but I have not messed with such things in 
> years. I've used both Xinerama and the "Nvidia settings manager" to
> manage such things and do on my Ubuntu 10.04 rig. and it works well
> for the bottom two monitors.
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> At first I thought the independent desktops were a bit weird,
> but it is something I quickly found natural advantages in
> and now prefer.
>
> For the record: I used Unity on 12.04 a serious long term trial,
> and it seriously affected my productivity when I used it. I found no 
> natural advantages in it worth mentioning for the way that I work.
> It's still on the netbook that stays on the couch and is a useful
> UI for consuming web content in vapid couch potato mode.

So, what DE do you use now?  I tend to XFCE w/avant window manager.
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