[CS-FSLUG] Multiple Monitors and three programs at once

[Jim Isbell, W5JAI]

My need is for three separate trading platforms so one screen put together
from parts is not decessary.  However it would seem to me that if you
needed that large a screen, a $500 LCD HD 50"  TV would do the job for less
money?

Jim Isbell
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Josiah Ritchie
<josiah at josiahritchie.com>wrote:

> I used to play with setting up a huge desktop and then the monitor would
> act as a 640x480 viewscreen. You could only see that much of the larger
> whole at a time. Ultimately, it proved rather burdensome to keep the whole
> thing. It's like keeping the entire starscape in your head while looking
> through a telescope. Neat in concept, hard to do in practice. Still, I
> think that it was even possible was pretty cool. :-)
>
> JSR/
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Stephen McCracken <sjm.mlists at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> >>> Will it run a SEPARATE program to each of the multiple monitors?
>> >>> I have had multiple monitors on this system, but they all showed
>> >>> the same picture.
>>
>> > Absolutely, this is all in the config of X and your video cards. You
>> > can choose either to mirror the image or have separate screens. If
>> > you have a laptop you might run into a video card limit where it
>> > will only mirror the laptop screen to the external screen, but I
>> > haven't seen that limitation in a long time.
>>
>> I was running for a long time an LXDE desktop that did really well with
>> two monitors (out of three) stretching the whole desktop into one big
>> 3840x1080 desktop and using them as one big monitor.  I have a laptop
>> and two monitors plugged into a docking station.  The video card only
>> has two outputs, so I could use any of the three monitors, but only two
>> maximum at a time.  I learned some of the xrandr commands to manipulate
>> the screens, but then found the utility ARandR which is a really slick
>> front end to all the xrandr shenanigans.
>>
>> sjm
>>
>> P.S. I have since switched to a GNOME environment, because I need to use
>> VMWare Workstation and it wouldn't see both monitors with LXDE, but can
>> use both with GNOME.
>>
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