On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 12:45 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 08:18 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Last week, I was at the Usenix LISA conference in Washington, DC. If you are
> not familiar, LISA is "Large Installation System Administration", and
this
> is the premiere conference for professional sysadmins.
[...]
> There were two particular themes that I heard over and over about desktop in
> particular:
>
> - need for better multi-monitor support
As Bastien said, we'd really need more specifics on this one - there are
some general issues we know of (e.g. vertically stacked monitors don't
work well) - but I'm uncertain what ones would be of relevance to
sysadmins. I'm not even sure what the breakdown for sysadmins is between
laptops and desktops - which have very different considerations for
multi-monitors.
Some complaints I've heard, off the top of my head:
- no way of saying "launch on this monitor"
- window placement is forgetful when hotplugs are involved
- GLX doesn't work with multiple GPUs and Xinerama (with Mesa anyway)
- "workspace only on primary display" is often unexpected
- no way to apply session layout settings to gdm
- ajax