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Multi-Monitor Setup On A Single Physical Head (Now Better!)

Friday October 3, 2008

That’s a big title, eh? I blogged previously about setting up a multi-head X environment for development and testing, even though I’m working on a laptop with only one card. My previous attempt used Xdmx and multiple Xephyr displays, and there were some problems with it. Thankfully, Lubos commented about his nifty little fakexinerama library that achieves the same result only MUCH easier (easierly?) and without any of the problems that I’d seen using Xdmx/Xephyr(1..n). Here, then, is a description of what I’ve done and the results…. This is a screenshot from within the Xephyr session, showing the 1600×1200 Xephyr display. The cool thing is that using ksnapshot from within the Xephyr session will actually capture the entire display, not Read more…

Desktop, Linux

A Poor Man’s Multi-Monitor Setup On A Single Physical Head

Thursday September 25, 2008

Finally!! I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this for a while now. Namely, I need to be able to test multiple display stuff out in Linux and being that I use my laptop pretty much exclusively for development, and I don’t have mulitple physical monitors handy at home (and certainly not whilst travelling), I’ve been thus far unable to test anything multi-head-ish. But, thanks to Xdmx and Xephyr, this is now possible. Xephyr :3.0 -ac -br +xinerama -screen 600×400 & Xephyr :4.0 -ac -br +xinerama -screen 600×400 & Xdmx :5 -display localhost:3 -display localhost:4 +xinerama export DISPLAY=:5 openbox& xterm& So, the first 2 lines start up X-within-X displays on localhost:3 and localhost:4. The third line starts up Read more…

Desktop

Looking for: Parental Controls Virtual Machine (or something)

Monday April 7, 2008

Dear Lazyweb, Having paid a decent amount of money yearly to Linksys for their nice little Parental Controls feature which ties in really well with my WRT54GS wireless router, I am surprised and dismayed to find that Linksys is no longer going to allow me to do so. They’re discontinuing their Parental Controls feature (a site-wide proxy, if you will) and have no replacement product. And having looked for the same service available from anyone/anywhere else, I am also shocked and dismayed to find that I can’t locate a viable replacement for said service. So, dear reader, if you happen to know of a good product/service that allows multiple logins per site (home) and configurable levels of allow/blocking, and doesn’t Read more…

Desktop, KDE

The Most Perfect Desktop OS

Thursday January 25, 2007

OpenSUSE 10.2. KDE + Beryl. Hands down. Blows everything else I’ve ever seen away, including OS X. Wow, seriously.

Apples, Desktop, Life in General, Linux, Movies, Music, Work Stuff

In The Last 48 Hours

Wednesday May 17, 2006

I have had the pleasure(?) of living through the following: Getting two problems (ABS light and Airbag light were both stuck on) with our new-to-us 2005 Town & Country fixed only to find another problem (2 radiator fans refused to turn off when car was turned off). Had to disconnect battery overnight to turn off fans and prevent battery drainage. Took said vehicle back into the dealer who promptly and courteously fixed it. Again. Finding out that the family dog (who just yesterday started limping–refusing to set any weight on her left, front paw) has Lyme disease. $200+ later and doggie is now feeling much better, apparently. Beating head repeatedly against same problem at work for a week now is Read more…

Apples, Desktop, Life in General, Linux

This Just In: Linux Is Better Than OS X

Thursday April 27, 2006

Well, at least it is for me. And it’s taken me $1500 to figure it out the hard way. How much is it to ask for to be able to {alt,command}-tab through ALL bloody open windows in OS X? You know… ALL of them. Like, ALL of them–including the X11 windows that all get bunched up underneath one stinking X icon. Or the 2 Firefox windows. Not just one of them. ALL of them. And yes, I do know about Witch. And no, it doesn’t work with X11 windows. And why would I want to use X11 to begin with? Because sometimes Free applications are much, much better than the ones you have to pay for. For example, kontact is Read more…

Desktop, Life in General, Linux

Desktop Linux and Me

Tuesday November 29, 2005

This little excerpt is very exciting, I think. If the eWeek report is correct, and this truly does have the backing of the corporations listed, then it sure seems like people are starting to get serious about the real possibility of a Linux Desktop that has a chance at challenging the Windows desktop market share. I’m guessing that they’ll first be targetting end-user desktop market space, which shouldn’t be all that difficult, imho. Heck, I’ve been doing it for 10+ years now. What would be really interesting, however, is if they can target the corporate desktop environment. Now that’s a different animal entirely. Someone, please pay me to help develop the Linux desktop?!?!? =:/

Desktop, Life in General, Open Source, Work Stuff

Total Lack of Passion or Momentum

Saturday September 24, 2005

I found this blog entry from Dave Neary the other day and share his sentiments. Namely, I’m not particularly enamored with what I do for a living (Retail Pharmacy–it’s not painful to the point of death, but it’s not something that I’m passionate about, to be sure), and would absolutely LOVE to work with a company that not only embraces the Open Source desktops (GNOME, KDE, etc., etc.), but also actively participates in their development. From what I’ve seen, Redhat and Novell do this, but I’ve not been successful in getting anyone’s attention with my resume-submissions. =:/ But that’s my passion, to be sure, and I would love the opportunity to work on something during my day job that I Read more…