Multiple Monitors for Linux Laptops?

Posted by michael on Sunday March 24, 2002 @02:52AM from the double-the-pleasure dept.

dybvandal writes "Multi monitoring support for laptops is far is from perfect in the windows world even though it enhances productivty considerably and letting that laptop TFT go to waste while using an external monitor is also a shame. I found no support in Win2K and only limited support under WinXP (laptop tft is forced to be primary). Win9x actually does multi monitoring perfectly but it can hardly be considered a productive environment. But since my company is making the switch to Linux soon I was hoping that this episode would soon end. But according to the xfree page multi monitor support is still fairly limited in general and with no comments on laptops. There seem to be commercial alternatives (xig, metro-X) but I would like to hear about some first hand success stories before spending the cash on such a solution."

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huh? windows works great by Splork · 2002-03-24 13:43 · Score: 3, Interesting

windows 98, me, 2000 and XP all have great multiple monitor support when using more than one video card or using a video card with multi-head outputs (ATI and Matrox make good ones).

XFree86's multihead support works well, but it not easy to setup and not quite as nice to use. And X doesn't support multi-head in the nice friendly same screen (ie: windows can be dragged between screens) format without applications popping up thinking that its one large display so that the show up across multiple heads or with dialog boxed centered on the break in your monitors.