Re: [tlug] Favorite Linux laptops these days?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephenjturnbull@example.com>]

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> On Monday, April 2, 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Jonathan Byrne <jonathan@example.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I don't like the idea (a shortcoming of X, it seems) of having to logout
>> > of my session to switch between the discrete and integrated GPU.
>>
>> X is able to handle multi-headed setups, so I would guess that the
>> shortcoming here is not of X, but of the window manager, which doesn't
>> know how to move whole desktops across displays.
>
> I think there's something else going on here, Steve. The switchy-switchy
> stuff seems to not allow both GPUs to operate at once, so X can't use them
> both to drive heads.

I'm happy to be educated (I did say I was guessing -- did I ever tell
you about the first time I said "You know, Bob, I really don't know?"
to a colleague at OSU? :-)

N.B. That still doesn't sound like a limitation of X to me.  That's
like blaming Linux because it can't detect the mountable USB in your
shirt pocket!