Re: Panel behaviour under Xinerama

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Sander Vesik">

> > Maybe I'm missing an imporant use case of Xinerama, but I'm not sure I
> > can think of an occasion on which I'd want a window maximised across the
> > entire multiple screen area. The tri-state sounds ooky. I should delve
> > into bugzilla to find out what the impetus for this was. :-)
> 
> A large virtual screen / video wall / cave ? Well, ok, so you run out of
> pixels if you try for a cave & immersion related software supports mutiple
> adoptors. But basicly any application of multiplexing the bandwidth to
> RAMDACs / displays.

Yeah, that was addressed earlier in the thread. Mark also noted that this
tristate thing was a figment of his imagination.

- Jeff

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