Re: [wmii] Separate Wmii instances on Matrox Millennium G450 DualHead

From: Bryan Peters <gnuisancev3_AT_archlinux.us>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 15:54:50 -0400

Excuse my ignorance here, but how do I go about pulling files from
there and getting them installed?

Also, I looked here: http://code.suckless.org/dl/wmii/

and was kinda confused about the naming scheme of the files versus the
modification dates. It also seems the xpi ones won't compile on my
system, it's complaining about lacking of 64 bit files, so I guess the
xpi branch is for x86_64 only?

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Alex Kilgore <adkilgore_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using the latest tip, wmii-hg2454
> from the repo at
> http://code.suckless.org/hg/wmii
> Alex
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> Thomas Gallen wrote:
>>
>> That's strange. On my dual head setup each screen is separated by the
>> unmovable center line like I'd expect it to. Windows don't stretch
>> across the whole screen like they used to on older versions of Wmii.
>> Only across the screen on which they appear (initially).
>>
>> However, the idea of having different tags per screen has been attractive
>> to others on this mailing list before. Curious, what version of Wmii are
>> you using?
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:19:22PM -0400, Bryan Peters wrote:
>>>
>>> I honestly don't like the way it plays with Xinerama turned on.
>>> Windows auto stretch across both monitors and won't stick to one
>>> monitor.  Also the idea of having to windows with their individual
>>> tagging is appealing.   I initially got the idea from here:
>>>
>>> http://osdir.com/ml/window-managers.wmii/2007-10/msg00050.html
>>>
>>> But that was 2 years ago I guess.
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Kris Maglione <maglione.k_AT_gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:12:37PM -0400, Bryan Peters wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Not quite sure what i'm doing wrong here. I want 2 separate instances
>>>>> of wmii running on my dual monitor setup. I'm not concerned about
>>>>> dragging windows from screen to screen, but I am concerned with each x
>>>>> server being able to accept my mouse and keyboard commands.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems no matter what I do, my Secondary screen on the right of me
>>>>> can interact fully with my mouse and keyboard, but the primary screen
>>>>> in front of me can only interact with the mouse. It will not accept
>>>>> any keyboard commands. And while the mouse can be dragged over to that
>>>>> screen, it will not click on 'nil'. Mod+P doesn't work on the primary
>>>>> screen to bring up dmenu, I can't open a terminal there, nothing.
>>>>
>>>> wmii supports Xinerama. Is there some reason you can't use it instead?
>>>> There
>>>> used to be some measures in place to ensure that two instances would
>>>> cooperate, but since that setup doesn't get much use any more, they may
>>>> have
>>>> faded away a bit.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Kris Maglione
>>>>
>>>> It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
>>>>       --Mark Twain
>>>>
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