On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 12:45 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 08:18 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Last week, I was at the Usenix LISA conference in Washington, DC. If you are > > not familiar, LISA is "Large Installation System Administration", and this > > is the premiere conference for professional sysadmins. > [...] > > There were two particular themes that I heard over and over about desktop in > > particular: > > > > - need for better multi-monitor support > > As Bastien said, we'd really need more specifics on this one - there are > some general issues we know of (e.g. vertically stacked monitors don't > work well) - but I'm uncertain what ones would be of relevance to > sysadmins. I'm not even sure what the breakdown for sysadmins is between > laptops and desktops - which have very different considerations for > multi-monitors. Some complaints I've heard, off the top of my head: - no way of saying "launch on this monitor" - window placement is forgetful when hotplugs are involved - GLX doesn't work with multiple GPUs and Xinerama (with Mesa anyway) - "workspace only on primary display" is often unexpected - no way to apply session layout settings to gdm - ajax -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
