Double-headed use advice?
Michael Kleber
michael.kleber+vnc "at" gmail.com
Thu May 3 16:37:01 2007
I have an only-partly-VNC question, but the community here seems
like it might have good answers.
Until this week, my setup was simple:
* I do all my computing on a shared unix server, where I run a vncserver;
* At work, I run the RealVNC client on my Windows PC (in fullscreen mode,
essentially hiding the fact that it's a Windows box);
* At home, I run the RealVNC client on my Mac.
* Inside my Xvnc, I switch between multiple virtual desktops (using KDE).
The new complication: I got a second monitor for my desktop PC at work.
How best to go double-headed?
* I could run a double-wide "vncserver -geometry 3200x1600".
As far as I can tell, the RealVNC client can't do full-screen mode
stretching across both monitors, though. I could run two clients
sharing the same server, one full screen on each monitor, but they'd
accidentally scroll side-to-side all the time.
* I could run two entirely separate vncservers and two vncclients,
one in fullscreen mode on each monitor at work. From home, I'd
connect to only one at a time, or have them in two overlapping
windows. Can't move windows between them. Can probably
copy-and-paste across going through the client OS, at least.
* Can Xvnc run as two screens of one server, eg :0.0 and :0.1?
And have them listen on two different ports? This would address
some of the preceding option's problems, but I don't know much
about how KDE works with double-headed X setups. Is there even
a window manager than will let me independently switch the two
physical screens among >2 virtual desktops?
* I could wimp out and leave one monitor at work running Windows,
and reserve it for web browsing and gmail :-).
Any advice on what's possible, especially including other ideas
that I haven't thought of, would be much appreciated.
--Michael Kleber
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