multimonitor question

[Takuma Murakami]

Igor,

> Not having looked at the code, I may be asking something naïve, but
> isn't the following layout also possible?
> 
> +-----------+--------------+
> |           |              |
> |           |              |
> | monitor A |              |
> |           |  monitor B   |
> |           |              |
> +-----------+              |
> |           |              |
> |           |              |
> +-----------+--------------+
> 
> And if it is (and I can think of others, too), shouldn't the choice of
> layout be configurable somehow?

The placement of monitors is configured in the Windows layer.
With dual monitor systems you can freely move the monitors
in the display setting menu (I don't know the exact name in
English Windows; right-click desktop and select the rightmost
tab).  Windows let flexible placement to accommodate various
real layouts of monitors.

The virtual screen is formed as the smallest rectangle that
includes all monitors.  For example we can consider the
following placement which has two empty areas.

+-----------+--------------+
|           |              |
|           |              |
|           |  monitor B   |
+-----------+              |
|           |              |
|           +--------------+
| monitor A |              |
|           |              |
+-----------+--------------+

Hope this helps.

Takuma Murakami