Unity and dual monitors?

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Thu Oct 28 09:07:06 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 01:18 -0400, Rashkae wrote:
> On 10-10-28 01:08 AM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> > On Thursday, October 28, 2010 08:54 AM, Rashkae wrote:
> >    
> >> On 10-10-27 04:40 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> >>      
> >>> Does anyone here have any insight into whether Unity supports dual
> >>> monitors?  I have been trying it on my desktop but it only puts itself
> >>> onto one of my monitors and then crashes almost immediately.
> >>> What am I doing wrong?
> >>>
> >>> Cybe R. Wizard
> >>>
> >>>        
> >> Sorry that I can't answer your question.  But if you are experimenting
> >> because of the recently poorly announced news about changes for Natty, I
> >> would hold off a bit longer.  If you find (sorry, i didn't save the
> >> link) the actual Ubuntu design proposal, Ubiquity for desktop will be
> >> very different than the current Netbook version.
> >>
> >> One key difference is that Ubiquity plans to ditch Mutter and replace
> >> with Compiz, which many of us are already familiar with and comes with
> >> lots of hardware support and utilities.
> >>      
> > Is it Unity or Ubiquity?
> >
> >    
> 
> Arrgh, I've been making that same mistake all day it seems.
> 
> 
> Unity, this is all about Unity :)
> 
> And yes, things are shaking up.. It will be interesting to see what 
> future versions of Fedora decide to use for default desktop when they 
> get to Gnome 3.....No matter which way this goes, the future landscape 
> of gnome direction is about to get a serious makeover.

I've just never liked the menu layout of it. Plus I'm attached to the
KDE thing of just moving your mouse towards the next workspace and going
there. I'm hooked on that. :) Ric


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