Clarification

Post #241,049 by drewk 1/11/06 7:07:40 PM Reply	Clarification Don't worry about my feelings, they're not hurt. I've had people try to offend me and it didn't work. I'll say this, though: Both Bill and I read your inital post and came up with a simiar idea. Maybe your initial description wasn't as clear to us as it was to you. Re-reading your original, I see why my idea doesn't get you what you want. But it took three readings and a bit of thought to see why. The key line was, "The two options that I know about are either having 2 different X displays (so each can cycle through a different set of virtual desktops) ..." If I had two X sessions, one on the local box one an X-term, I would have called that "two views of the same desktop". It didn't occur to me that you would actually want to see the same document or app open on two monitors at the same time. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #241,072 by ben_tilly 1/11/06 9:47:41 PM Reply	Can you tell me how... I could have written the original question in a way that would have been understood? I knew when I wrote it that it would sound very similar to many things that I didn't want. And I tried very hard to make it clear. And yes, I actually said (So I could, if I wished, have both monitors showing me the same virtual desktop.) That implied to me that I would see the exact same applications on both of them. As for Bill, his idea was much closer to what I asked for. He got the fact that it had to be possible for the same thing to be on both monitors. I felt that he just hadn't quite thought it through enough, and in his response he made it clear that he hadn't thought it through enough, and that he realized that for himself after posting. In other words he knew what I was asking and thought he had a solution, but didn't. Which is very different than not figuring out what I was asking for. Regards, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #241,073 by Another Scott 1/11/06 10:00:50 PM 1/11/06 10:13:41 PM Reply	I think this is clearer. [link\|http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2004-July/msg00035.html\|Gnome-list]: I'm trying to be able to view different virtual desktops on different monitors. For example, if Metacity has four virtual desktops and I have two monitors, it would be nice if I could control those monitors to view any two virtual desktops. It took him a couple of attempts to put it that succinctly though. ;-) [edit:] Formatting... Cheers, Scott. Edited by Another Scott Jan. 11, 2006, 10:13:41 PM EST Expand All History
Post #241,078 by ben_tilly 1/11/06 10:18:35 PM Reply	Yes, that is clearer I am not surprised that it took him a while to find a succinct way to put it. I spent a surprising amount of time trying to make my initial question clear, and obviously didn't succeed. I guess one take-away is that a concrete example is always good when attempting to clarify things. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #241,115 by drewk 1/12/06 9:44:14 AM Reply	It's an "instance" problem If you and I are both running "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5" we are both running the "same application". But we are running two different instances of two different installations on two different systems. If I were logged in twice to the same machine in different X sessions, I would be running two different instances if the same installation of the "same application". So unfortunately, saying that you're viewing "the same applications on two screens" isn't unambiguous. And no, I can't tell you how to say it unambiguously and concisely. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]

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