On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 15:48:08 -0400
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 02:16:58PM -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> > Greetings
> >
> > My long time mentor in things Linux (described himself as a fossil)
> > is no longer with us. (He suggested that I strongly consider using
> > Devuan which I now have on one system.)
> > He was of the opinion that Wayland - - - whatever its exact
> > function, was really not worth running.
> > Yet it is being touted as the X11 replacement and is now supposedly
> > capable of handling both multi-gpu and multi-monitor setups.
>
> If I recall correctly from way back in the early 90's on actual Unix
> systems, X already had a mechanism for handling multiple monitors.
> Has that fallen from X becuse of decades of bit-rot?

Still there. Mode line are a thing of the past as for the last fourto
three versions, it has mostly automagically worked for me for my PCs.
YMMV depending on your hardware, e.g various laptops.
>
> Don't know about multiple GPUs sending to a single monitor, though.

My 2c is to do it via a 'switch'. Either physical or maybe the input
selector switch on your monitor, Caveat I've never done that as I
either ssh -X or stick a second monitor on the other boxen.

X has been fine for me although most of my boxen are X free headless
servers.