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Multiple-Display Power Tools For Linux?

Posted by timothy on from the it's-a-hard-knock-life dept.

shift writes "I've used multiple monitors for years (currently 3) and find that Linux is lacking in power tools for such setups. Even Windows 7 has added the feature to move a window from screen to screen with keyboard shortcuts. Are any of the major desktop environments adding such features? I'm still stuck on FVWM and have defined functions to swap the contents of screens as well as move windows from screen to screen and so on. But this just seems like such basic functionality people would want in multi-screen setups that I'm surprised I don't find any of these features in our latest desktop environments."

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  1. Linux just isn't ready for the desktop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mod me down but you know it's true.

    1. Re:Linux just isn't ready for the desktop by mrmeval · · Score: 0, Troll

      You will notice that the toe jam pickers that claim to have it working will never specify their system and never ever give up an xorg.conf file. They're trolling.

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  2. Linux Fails by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think we should just accept that linux blows chunks when it comes to this. But being slashdot you'll still question why everyone doesnt drop MS.

  3. Ask Slashdot why They Can't Post Good Questions by elstonj · · Score: 0, Troll

    This person obviously has very little experience with Linux and should probably be posting this to something other than the front page of Slashdot. Can't we get some good questions for once? How about ask Slashdot becomes solely a forum for questions to be posted for interviews with influential people? I'm tired of winblows fanboys asking why they can't get Linux to do something it has supported for years.

  4. Re:Compiz can do it. by warcow105 · · Score: 1, Troll

    The man is using FVWM, something tells me going from FVWM to compiz is not what he's looking for exactly...

    I am looking for my van to take hairpin turns at 250mph....are you not going to suggest that maybe I should be looking for a different vehicle :-)

  5. Re:Issues I've had. by ozmanjusri · · Score: -1, Troll
    Yeah, this whole article stinks of Microsoft FUD.
    • Used the phrase "Linux is lacking", check.
    • Cites ancient version and ignores latest DEs, check.
    • Praise for Windows 7, check.

    This is as real as "Get the Facts". How'd it ever get to the front page?

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    "I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
  6. MS FUD to push Windows 7 for x-mas by cenc · · Score: 0, Troll

    Really people? This is is a question to be taken seriously on /.?

    Anyone that knows Linux, knows it does more than one display and has done it for years. I have been using multiples displays for at least 5 years in linux.

    In some sense, given the server / terminal roots of linux you could say it did it long long before windows ever did.

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    Living in Chile
  7. Re:Issues I've had. by Lesrahpem · · Score: 1, Troll

    I don't know WTF is even being discussed here exactly. Everything the article poster is talking about has been available and working well for as long as I can remember. I have been a Linux user for almost 10 years. Have you people never even looked at Enlightenment 16 or 17? What about Compiz? Or how about KDE or Gnome (in recent years)?