[rescue] octane question

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:12:18PM -0500, Andrew Weiss wrote:
>On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

>>support.  Basically, it realizes that multi-head displays should just be
>>treated exactly as if it was one 1600x600 display, so it does things like pop
>>up windows on one screen or the other, and it limits the start bar to one
>>screen.  I believe the mac does things like this.
> 
> So what's wrong with one REALLY HUGE HEAD?  I.e. a 21" at 1600 x 1280 or
> so?
> 
> Andrew (who has never had the urge to plug in more than one CRT to a
> single a machine, and who always buys 21" CRT's)

It is never enough.  Personally, I find it a real pain to try and work on a 
large gimp file AND have all my gimp dialogs on the same screen.  Further, it
is handy to be able to have emacs on one screen and Netscape and IE on 
another.

Another handy place to have 1+ screens are for presentations.  One screen
can drive the overheads, while another gives a preview of the current slide
to the presenter, another gives a preview of the next slide to the presenter,
and a fourth is used by a techy to control the presentation.

Or, there is everyones favorite, the Onyx w/ MCO.  You need to use 2 of the 
displays for the stereo head mount, a 3rd the the audience display, and a
forth for the operator.

And lets now forget the personable digital assistant, which should have a 
monitor of it's own.  OK, this last one doesn't exist yet.  But if anyone
wants to fund me full time to work on it...  I don't cost that much, really.

The uses of multiple heads are endless.  The only problem for most people is
the desk real estate for it all.  That is one of the reasons why flat-panel
displays are such a great thing, because they take less space.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd