[CentOS] Anybody ever done 6 monitors on one server before? :)

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Chris Mauritz wrote:

> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 15:59, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> >   
> > > My boss wants to put together a Network Operations Center, with a network
> > > monitoring server as the centerpiece.  He wants that server to have 6
> > > monitors: 4 for network monitoring tools (rrdtool, etc) and two for
> > > running commands and the like (ping, traceroute, etc).
> > > 
> > > I know that with the right video card(s) you can have two monitors, but
> > > has anybody had 6?
> > 
> > If you can hide the other PCs you can use one monitor each but
> > pretend they are all one with http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
> > to make them share the same keyboard and mouse.
> 
> There's also the possibility of using 2 or 4 LARGE flatscreen monitors and
> muliple windows for the various chores.  Unless your PHB is hung up on having
> 6 physical monitors, you can probably accomplish the same thing with a pair of
> 30" LCDs and a nice 'n purty X Window manager.  2 x 30" LCDs is a lot of
> screen real estate and a lot less complex to put together.

And use devilspie for application placement.

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