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Idea
#3153: "Click-n-play" Multihead support
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Written by andersja the 4 Mar 08 at 18:58.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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ArtInvent wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 20:40
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Multi-head is really having more than one monitor for a single user. This NOT the same as multi-seat, so this suggestion really ought to be re-titled.
A single Ubuntu computer can be used to power 2-10 complete workstations. This is a huge feature that should be made much easier to set up. It can be touted as something that the proprietary Windows or Mac worlds will never favor, since they want their per-seat license fees. It can save huge amounts of energy, both in reduced electricity used by fewer computers, as well as reductions in resources consumed by manufacturing fewer computer hardware sets. It can also save users a lot of money. Many people also feel that it could impact the developing world by making it far cheaper to get more users in schools etc onto computers. It's too good an idea in too many ways not to develop.
Right now this can be done most easily with Proprietary software (Userful) and they don't support 3D on any of the workstations, and they charge $ for more than 2 seats. Less than ideal.
The only other way to achieve multi-seat is through a pretty complex manual editing of a number of config files - at least xorg.conf and gdm.conf - which is awful and largely undocumented.
I fail to see how this suggestion can be marked as 'DONE.'
Related projects: Ndiyo, DisplayLink, Userful.
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nathan_s wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 22:06
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I'd never even thought of this before, but the more I think of it the more I like it. Good idea!
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frandavid100 wrote on the 5 Mar 08 at 16:01
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Wow, that's definitely one of the most interesting ideas I've read over here.
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andersja wrote on the 5 Mar 08 at 19:55
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ArtInvent - I agree this is not at all "Done" and I don't know who set it that way - it might be an auto-generated status as the launchpad bug is closed or something!
Nathan & frandavid - thanks for your encouragement!
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Wiplash4 wrote on the 3 Apr 08 at 09:24
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And please make it comfortable for the user to shift an application to another screen. I consider that all Viewports are displayable for each screen (e.g. "Viewport 1","Viewport 2 on Screen 4", "Viewport 3", "Viewport 4 on Screen 5" ...). This way all monitors can choose from a pool of viewports and the user do no further menu to switch between screens.
Or workspace, whatever You call it.
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Wiplash4 wrote on the 3 Apr 08 at 13:04
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#6123
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Wiplash4 wrote on the 4 Apr 08 at 12:02
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Please just do not forget to set resolution, etc. to the monitor, not to the workspace / viewport.
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Wiplash4 wrote on the 5 Apr 08 at 09:07
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And a little manager to change the viewport / workspace for each screen.
Think of an office with 5 screens and a projector: The supervisor should have he ability to change the workspace of the projector easily.
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Wiplash4 wrote on the 5 Apr 08 at 09:26
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Or add this manager to the monitor-manager with a little applet on the panel.
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LC всадник cbet wrote on the 1 May 08 at 22:16
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I just found this topic, I had put on duplicated of this idea but now hopefully the votes will be merged soon. A easy GUI/manager for this feature would definitely help shit loads of people all over the world specially in poor communities.
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7861/
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 saivann (Moderator) wrote on the 7 May 08 at 18:27
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I marked this idea as a duplicate of idea 3442 since the description was the same, but title and blueprints were wrong. I know that it's not the ideal solution since some of you maybe voted for Multihead and not multiseat but I think that it was the best solution since this idea was erroneous and that the description was clearly the same. Thanks for your participation in brainstorm!
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Bug #42731
Blueprint laptop-video-output-control:
Ubuntuforums.org thread #221174