Ask Slashdot: Hardware Accelerated Multi-Monitor Support In Linux?

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 27, 2013 @03:22AM from the 32.174-ft/s^2 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I'm an Engineer with a need for 3 large monitors on the one PC. I want to run them as 'one big desktop' so I can drag windows around between all three monitors (Windows XP style). I run Debian and an nVidia NVS450. Currently I have been able to do what I want by using Xinerama which is painfully slow (think 1990s), or using TwinView which is hardware accelerated but only supports 2 monitors. I can live without 3D performance, but I need a hardware accelerated 2D desktop at the minimum. What are my options? I will happily give up running X and run something else if I need to (although I would like to keep using Xfce — but am open to anything). I am getting so desperate that I am starting to think of running Windows on my box, but that would be painful in so many other ways given my work environment revolves around the Linux toolset."

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You've only got one real choice here by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-27 03:26 · Score: 1, Funny

Wait for Wayland.
1. Re:You've only got one real choice here by serviscope_minor · 2013-07-27 03:49 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Yes, because Wayland has the magic pixie dust which makes the drivers support things that they never did before.
  
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