On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 8:18 AM o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@???> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 4:34 PM Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 09:51:33 -1000
> > Joel Roth via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
> snip
> > One question: How does your above statement hold up when Wayland
> > becomes the law of the land?
> >
>
> Greetings
>
> From what little I"ve been able to discern about Wayland I really hope that
> it doesn't become the law of the land.
> (<rant on)
> I will admit that I"m downright weird - - - - I have 2 graphics cards and
> presently 4 monitors with the 5th sitting waiting for time to install.
> One of my cards is old enough so that I run nouveau instead of any
> proprietary option (the card is EOLed!). I first set up this system in
> the beginning of 2011 and really struggled to find useful information
> to run this multi-monitor setup. There is a tiny bit of information that
> is available since the initial setup but very little which tells me that
> running multi-gpu and multi-monitor is highly unusual in the linux
> community. I just finished yesterday a project where I actually was
> needing to use all 4 monitors (all the screen real estate) and I still found
> myself wishing for more. For setup after any boot or reboot I use
> xrandr using notes from what I was able to find (xrandr is very terribly
> exampled and the notes are adequate but really do need a lot of
> experimenting - - - - which is not comfortable for most!!) better
> develop for myself.
>
> Spent a little time just now doing some searching and it seems that
> multi-gpu and serious multi-monitor (more than 2) is now considered
> to be the province of gamers. I don't really play any games - - - I have
> too much fun just using software on my system - - - - but then I'm a
> business man and self-employed and that means, by definition, that
> I'm weird. I am working with software in a very wide range of things,
> from CADD to CAM (that very little at present), to spreadsheets, to
> starting to work in self designed software supporting equipment that
> I'm fabricating and a bunch of other things. To date I've been mostly a
> software user but am starting on becoming a software developer
> because in certain areas software just isn't adequate. In the software
> using I've found myself pushing the envelope because I combine things
> in ways that seem to all too often be non-customary.
>
> So - - - to draw the circle a little closer to closed - - - - what I see in
> Wayland doesn't enthuse me one iota - - - multi-gpu and serious i
> multi-monitor stuff is really still considered 'weird' and that means
> that its not really supported and if there is some support - - - - its
> called good luck finding it. (Most of the information on the web for
> xrandr is for version 1.3 (meaning version 3) or earlier yet I have found
> a hint that version 1.6 is immanent but I can't really find any information
> on what is proposed.)
>
> (>rant off)

I possibly should have changed the topic - - - - mea culpa!