GSoC : Multiscreen management

[Will Stephenson]

On Friday 02 April 2010 14:13:03 Aike J Sommer wrote:
> Well.. A Screen is the logical area to which you can maximize a window
> for example, or which has a panel at the bottom!
> An output is the actual physical hardware / monitor...
> 
> So, for each connector that appears when calling xrandr there will be
> one Output created, some enabled, some disabled... On my netbook those
> are "VGA" and "LVDS", on my notebook something like "VGA", "LVDS" and
> "TMDS-1" and on my HTPC "VGA" and "TV-1"!
> 
> How many Screens there are depends on your configuration:
> - If you have only one enabled Output, you will have one Screen with the
> same geometry
> - If you have 2 or more overlapping Outputs, one Screen will be created
> which spans all of those
> - If you have multiple non-overlapping Outputs, one Screen will be
> created per Output
> 
> One of the ideas was to be able to configure even non-overlapping
> Outputs to be combined in one Screen, but that is not implemented...
> 
> Hope that helps!

Thanks, it cleared a lot of questions up.

Will