Re: [dev] Re: dwm development continues NOW

Jimmy Tang wrote:
> Hi Anslem
>
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 04:18:31PM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
>
>> 2009/7/1 Jimmy Tang <jtang_AT_tchpc.tcd.ie>:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:06:56PM +0100, twfb wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 17:27 Sat 20 Jun � � , Anselm R Garbe wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Monitors are currently selected through pressing Mod1-w, Mod1-e (just
>>>>> two initial keybindings), and clients are assigned to the selected
>>>>>
>>>> First let me say that it's great to dwm working on dual head. For a
>>>> laptop user thats excellent.
>>>>
>>>> I have been following the repo and testing with a dual head setup. Is it
>>>> intented to be extended to work for more than two displays?
>>>>
>>>> If not may I suggest a cycling behaviour for the display keybindings, I
>>>> can't quite explain why but my fingers don't seem to be able to remember
>>>> the correct Mod1-w or Mod1-e key press. It's surprisingly hard work
>>>> compared to the tags. Switch/Send to other, would be simpler.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> i've tried remapping the the focusmon and tagmon functions to 'd' and
>>> 'f', that seems nicer to me as a default, �w and e seems abit un-natural
>>> for me.
>>>
>> I welcome any good proposal(s) regarding this. I'm not that happy with
>> Mod1-w/e either.
>>
>> One idea was incorporating the F-keys, like Mod1-F1 .. Mod1-Fn for
>> monitor selection, and Mod1-Shift-F1 .. Mod1-Shift-Fn for client
>> propagation among them.
>>
>> Also, I realized that with some minor changes to the current code
>> base, we can easily have classic multihead support as well, though
>> with the limitation of focusmon only (moving clients accross won't
>> work of course).
>>
>> What's your view on this?
>>
>>
>>
I've used mod1-shift-, and mod1-shift-. in the past.
Received on Wed Jul 01 2009 - 17:04:12 UTC