[mythtv] Multiple screen setups

[Nigel Pearson]

Trying to resolve a ticket:
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4738
without breaking anybody's multi-screen setups
(I don't have multihead Linux test hardware)


These are all the different multi-screen
scenarios I can imagine:

1) Xinerama or Mac OS X. One big virtual screen.
QApplication::desktop()->width() and height() span all.
QApplication::desktop()->numScreens() and
QApplication::screenGeometry(0..N) work.

2) Non-Xinerama. --display:0.N can
select an individual screen.

3) Windows. A am assuming the DirectX stuff
works like Xinerama. Dunno about D3D.

4) Direct FB. Barely supported.
Don't know if multi-screen is possible



I have a patch in that ticket which basically
enables the Xinerama-type settings even if
the screen isn't managed by Xinerama.

At the moment, X non-Xinerama users have to use
--display arg to select a different screen.
Markus has pointed out that my patch seems to
get the wrong geometry if users change their
desktop layout frequently, so it needs work.

(Ideally, -O XineramaScreen=-1, or 0 or 1
  would work, but at the moment it doesn't)



If a few multi-screen users could experiment
with this patch, I would appreciate it.




P.S. Déja vu - I last hacked
      "multiple screen sanity" early 2005!

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