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Thanks for this, really helpful piece. I wanted to mention that I use a Matrox dual-head at work and it is a complete pain to work with, especially under Linux.

by RossM 14y ago

Thanks for this, really helpful piece. I wanted to mention that I use a Matrox dual-head at work and it is a complete pain to work with, especially under Linux. It is possible to split displays virtually on Linux with a piece of software called Xinerama. Though I work on a virtual machine (over VNC due to the... quality of my workstation) where this does not work. I've been looking for a laptop so I can do my job using an acceptable environment and your post really helped, thanks!

kami8845 14y ago
Happy to help. Yeah I saw Xinerama. In the end that might've worked, but I wasn't sure how well this worked in practice during everyday work and whether there'd be driver issues with the external USB graphics card. I also heard about some issues about generally swapping monitor configurations (i.e. using the laptop at home and then bringing it into the office) and how it can be a pain so I decided to stay away from slightly "hacky" solutions like that.