document updated 16 years ago, on Apr 19, 2008
Legacy window managers don't work well once a larger amount of real-estate is assembled.
Some basic approaches to dealing with this include:
- Use multi-heading, where each monitor is to some extent separate, and use some additional software to make it easy to quickly move apps+mouse from one monitor to the next. (eg. ultramon)
- Have one large unified display, and somehow cope with that (tiling window managers allow dynamic resizing of "virtual separate displays")
- Leverage legacy window manager code by isolating each window manager as much as possible, and make only the user-input devices easily switchable from one computing environment to the next. (the Synergy approach)
Disorganized list of links
- allowing multiple users to use separate areas of the same unified display
- TODO: what do the 100+ megapixel folks use for a window manager? Do they always write a custom (ie. super-clunky) window manager? The screenshots seem to indicate that. Or, since there's so many tiled display walls around now, have anybody started collaborating?