Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

From: Stefan Maerkl <maerkl_AT_ims.uni-hannover.de>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:14:05 +0100

Christian Garbs <mitch_AT_cgarbs.de> schrieb am 12.01.2008 um 00:36:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:27:09PM +0100, Sander van Dijk wrote:
> > On Jan 11, 2008 5:16 PM, Stefan Maerkl <maerkl_AT_ims.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
> > > On the second head, one could display just an empty window labelled
> > > "On head 1". Maybe in a special colour or so.
> >
> > You're joking, right?... Right?
>
> Hmm, perhaps not :-)
>
> What about focus-following-mouse.
>
> The "inactive" head gets a static, perhaps greyed out version of the
> window in question. The "active" head has the real window with focus,
> input and output.
> When you move your mouse to the "inactive" window or select it
> otherwise, the inactive and active windows get swapped.
>
> So there would be an additional, static client window.
> Hmm, perhaps not very clever when "active" and "inactive" have
> different sizes. But perhaps worth a try. Might be interesting.

Yes, that's more or less what I was thinking about. Might be better
than windows appearing and disappearing when switching to the other
head.

ciao
Stefan

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