Re: [dwm] Xinerama: back to the roots

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Ritesh Kumar <ritesh_AT_cs.unc.edu> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:27 PM, y i y u s <yiyu.jgl_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > > well, I agree that the current Xinerama support is also not the
> > > way to go. First of all it is far to complex in the code for
> > > the benefit it implements. And around 90% of all dwm users have
> > > no Xinerama or Multihead support in my eyes.
> > >
> > > So I believe a real invention will be a tile() with Xinerama
> > > support instead and a status bar which can be positioned more
> > > flexible (just using a certain screen only to save screen real
> > > estate).
> > >
> >
> > As one of the users with just one monitor, I'm very happy with this
> > decision. Anyway, I will keep thinking about a good xinerama
> > implementation.
> > But what I would really like is a pre-release of st, what's the new
> > estimated time? I think we can forget about mid February... and a new
> > dwm would be great too, with or without xinerama. Any idea about when
> > all this will be available? (take your time, I'm just asking, you
> > know)
> >
>
> I too like the idea of abstracting the Xinerama code away from the main dwm
> codebase. Given the debate on design choices, I am sure people will like to
> keep different Xinerama layouts. It will be a good idea to give all the
> ideas time to evolve and incorporate the essential features into dwm core.
>
> The bar is tricky...
> I don't use dual monitors but I know that I will not like looking at the
> "main" monitor for status information while I am working on the second (or
> nth) monitor. If I were to take a shot, I would replicate the status bar on
> each monitor with subtle differences in the content (say, for partition
> sets, I would highlight all the tags for that monitor). If I wanted
> real-estate I would use shortcuts to turn off bar display all together from
> all screens. However, this is just my choice... the point I am trying to
> make is that there should be an easy way to hack similar features in
> Xinerama setups with dwm.
> So, I would recommend abstracting drawbar in layouts[].
>
> Also, I too am very interested in st. I tried fetching it from
> http://www.suckless.org/cgi-bin/hg.rc/st but I got a 404-Not found :(

what about:
$ hg clone http://www.suckless.org/hg.rc/st

> _r
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Received on Tue Mar 04 2008 - 09:18:05 UTC