Re: Re: Re: [dwm] dwm-1.7.1

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:25:30AM +0200, Tube wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:09:38AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > The new dotile() allows 3 stack positions, however, in effect it
> > will only support two when compiled - this is because you
> > mentioned the area in the middle of the two screens important
> > (that's usually the area you concentrate on most of the time).
> >
> > Thus I got the idea to toggle the stack position between bottom
> > and wether left or right. This results in a dual-head setup in
> > two dwm instances, a dwm.left and a dwm.right:
> >
> > scr 0 scr 1
> > SSMMMMM MMMMMSS
> > SSMMMMM MMMMMSS
> > SSMMMMM MMMMMSS
> >
> > This only works without Xinerama, but it is actually < 5 lines
> > of code to support such change. It supports me to have two
> > master columns and two stacks. I don't think I will ever need
> > more.
>
> did i get it right that dual head viewing will work without xinerama and
> without starting two instances of dwm?

No. xinerama == 1 window manager instance for all screens,
no xinerama (no dual head) == several instances OR a window
manager with multihead support.

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