I'm suprised how few litestep themes work on a multi-monitor computer... even austerity borked itself, with some things (correctly) displaying on the main display, and other things appearing offset onto the secondary monitor, and other things not showing up at all.
So, are there any good themes that have been designed to work with multimon, or will I have to work on one myself?
--Nick
BTW... the monitors are arranged as follows; the sceondary one (1024x768) is to the left of the primary one (1600x1200)
There's not a lot of information on how Multi monitors work in LS, I've been wondering myself about a lot of things, but without multimonitors, I can't test anything.
You're surprised?
austerity is ~three years old. Much fewer people had multimon setups back then.
The problem is the community's ratio of user classes:
there are many users, fewer themers, and much fewer (module) coders.
I leave out artists, since there's supposedly one in everyone; they naturally help establish a userbase: putting more people on the problem could help I guess.
We need cooperation amongst these classes of users to help out the situation, since we have only a fraction of users with multimon setups, so then there's just that much less who can ideally develop/test multimon modules/themes.
Here's one way to look at it:
- Coders need to know how to make modules multimon-capable.
- Themers need multimon-capable modules.
- Users need to help solve the problem however they can, when just reporting the problem isn't enough.
Anyone can learn to do more and fit in more than one user class to understand and help solve the problem.
It will always be true that not everyone has multimon, so anyone with multimon should help however they can, since they feel the most strongly about wanting this problem solved.
Well, in that case, I'm rather out of practice with C and it's derivatives so I can't do much development, but I can still test modules for multimon, if anyone wants to send them to me... And I suppose I'll start putting together a list of multimon aware modules/themes.
--Nick
Well Obsidian was developed for a multimon setup.
However it uses left primary and right secondary.
First theme with dual taskbars I believe!
k/out
more pimpimg NBI-Studio.com and Obsidian... lol
There's been
some research done on multi-monitors. More information can be found at
http://wiki.litestep.com/Testing:MultimonSupport
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/me chuckles @ RabidCow.
What? "Bah" ? Sounds more like RabidSheep. whassa matta u?
Hope its not flashbacks working on the farm!
Nope, that would have been "Baa".