I've done it for years and years but only recently learned it's call "zaphod": two or more independent X displays running connected to the same machine, but each display being its own X11 environment. Nvidia has well supported this for many years and I use NVidia GPUs so works for me.
However, what doesn't work well, is desktop/window-manager support for such configurations. Most of the "presently supported" environments seem broken by design when when you try to fire up multiple instances of them: one for each X11 display. Sure, we can take a WAG and arrive at the conclusion that most of the devs have either never heard of zaphod or don't think it's a wide enough following to thoroughly test in that environment...but I digress because really, what FOSS projects do any real internal testing? Isn't that what the users are for? LOL
My latest nemesis is taskbars...I graduated from fvwm a few years ago to openbox...works well for my needs. The typical taskbar for openbox is tint2. It does seem to work for zaphod but is kind of fragile and can easily spin massive warnings into the X11 logfile. The configuration utility is buggy and can crash or generate improper config files. So I went on a quest for a different taskbar app...None of the web-search found apps work for zaphod: either by not storing individual profiles for each display, nor allowing multiple instances of the taskbar app to run concurrently.
Anyway, I needed to vent...Anyone have suggestions for well working zaphod compatible taskbars?
However, what doesn't work well, is desktop/window-manager support for such configurations. Most of the "presently supported" environments seem broken by design when when you try to fire up multiple instances of them: one for each X11 display. Sure, we can take a WAG and arrive at the conclusion that most of the devs have either never heard of zaphod or don't think it's a wide enough following to thoroughly test in that environment...but I digress because really, what FOSS projects do any real internal testing? Isn't that what the users are for? LOL
My latest nemesis is taskbars...I graduated from fvwm a few years ago to openbox...works well for my needs. The typical taskbar for openbox is tint2. It does seem to work for zaphod but is kind of fragile and can easily spin massive warnings into the X11 logfile. The configuration utility is buggy and can crash or generate improper config files. So I went on a quest for a different taskbar app...None of the web-search found apps work for zaphod: either by not storing individual profiles for each display, nor allowing multiple instances of the taskbar app to run concurrently.
Anyway, I needed to vent...Anyone have suggestions for well working zaphod compatible taskbars?
