Double-headed use advice?

[James Weatherall]

Hi Michael,

The VNC Enterprise & Personal Edition viewers for Windows supports
full-screen mode spanning multiple monitors.

The VNC Server for Unix supports multiple X "screens", each with their own
VNC Server.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Michael Kleber
> Sent: 03 May 2007 16:36
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Double-headed use advice?
> 
> 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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