[Sugar-devel] External Display on Sugar

[Gustavo Duarte]

Hi Sam,

I'm not sure if I'm understand this sentence:

>>> So maybe you are limited to mirroring the displays?

You means, the only option in Sugar is the mirroring display mode, is it
right ?

Thanks.


On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Sam Parkinson <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Gustavo,
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Gustavo Duarte <gus.duarte at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all, On Sugar 0.107 on Ubuntu running on a "standar'" laptop, when
> connect an external monitor to HDMI port, the Desktop AREA is only ONE. One
> part of the Desktop area is showed on a display laptop an other part is
> showed on external monitor. I would like to have two Desktop areas, one to
> be showed on laptop display and the other on external monitor. In Ubuntu, i
> can achieve this setup running a command like: xrandr --output HDMI1 --auto
> --right-of eDP1 When I run this command in Sugar, the external monitor turn
> ON, but I have only one Desktop AREA. Is it possible configure Sugar to
> have two desktop areas, when an external monitor is connected ?
>
>
> The Sugar code deals with the window management, and doesn't have any
> support for the idea that there could ever be 2 activities on the screen at
> once.  So maybe you are limited to mirroring the displays?
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
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