two monitors ?

[Vu Pham]

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 13:22 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > > From: "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
> > > On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Vu Pham wrote:
> > > > Under Windows, I can have two separate monitors if my video card has two
> > > > heads. Can I do the same thing under Linux ?
> > > > Or do I have to have two separate cards ?
> > >
> > > If you install the nvidia X driver, then yes, you can do it with one
> > > NVIDIA videocard.  Your choices are Twinview, Xinerama or 2 X screens.
> >
> > Could you elaborate on the differences between these three. Thanks.
> 
> TwinView is an nvidia driver specific feature, which makes two display
> devices look like one big X screen.  You can seemlessly move windows
> between the 2 display devices.
> 
> Xinerama, on the surface, is functionally similar to TwinView.
> 
> Two X screens are just an X screen on each display, with no properties in
> common between them. You can *NOT* move windows between them.
> 
> See the NVIDIA driver README for more details:
> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8762/README/index.html


My settings shows only Xinerama. 
Anyway, I find it interesting that if I maximize one app under on
monitor, then I am still able to drag it to the other monitor. 

I cannot make it under Windows, where I have to "restore" the app first,
then move it to the other monitor and maximize it again.


Vu