This adjusts internal data structures defining our display layout to be more flexible. When build with RANDR support (default) and the X server supports the extension, the structures are built with knowledge of the invididual monitors composing the desktop and how they're laid out. The various zoom'ing functions now zoom just on the monitor they're on; .x*zoom functions will zoom across the entire Screen.
This makes multi-monitor setups work much more fluidly, especially when they're of differing resolutions or otherwise don't add up to an even rectangular output.