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Rinaldus

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From: Moscow, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 40

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Is possible to divide screen?

Is possible to divide screen in 2 independent areas? I want to watch film in 1st area and to play game in 2nd area at the same time. It should be like 2 virtual desktops but both of them should appear at the same time.

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chair

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2006-06-12

Posts: 27

Re: Is possible to divide screen?

Tiling Window Manager?

seenxu

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Registered: 2008-08-25

Posts: 111

Re: Is possible to divide screen?

Tiling Window Manager?

It seems, this is the only possible solution.

pointone

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From: Waterloo, ON

Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 379

Re: Is possible to divide screen?

KDE 4's "zoom" feature and desktop activities? Although I don't think you can interact with your apps while zoomed-out...

Or... Just moving/resizing two windows so that one is above the other?

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pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

Posts: 776

Re: Is possible to divide screen?

That's an interesting idea. I've never seen anything like it though.

droog

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Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 877

Re: Is possible to divide screen?

Your aspect ratio would be messed up badly stretching out the game and movie like that
A tiling wm is the only thing i can think of thats similar to that.

baeksu

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From: Suwon, Korea

Registered: 2007-09-03

Posts: 15

Re: Is possible to divide screen?

You could use Xnest, some vnc implementation, or a virtual machine to run two desktops on the same screen, I reckon.

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tjwoosta

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Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 453

Re: Is possible to divide screen?

any tiling window manager can tile windows this way (or almost any other way you can think of)

N30N

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Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 273

Re: Is possible to divide screen?

Back when I used compiz, I watched movies and made my game (quake3) transparent over the top. It worked surprisingly well.

Your aspect ratio would be messed up badly stretching out the game and movie like that

It works better if you have a monitor that can rotate.