Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

From: Antoni Grzymala <antoni_AT_chopin.edu.pl>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:27:21 +0100

Anselm R. Garbe dixit (2007-12-10, 10:18):

> > I think this discussion is going in the right direction. My suggestion
> > to marry those two contradicting views would be like this:
> >
> > - in normal circumstances two heads act like two separate dwm instances
> > (the way I guess most people are doing now), you can jump between them
> > the usual way (ie. sh -c 'DISPLAY=:0.1 swarp 512 384');
> >
> > - both heads have their own freely settable sets of tags (like two
> > separate dwm instances);
> >
> > - add another property to a client (called head, for example),
> > signifying which head a client should appear on (mutually exclusive,
> > so that we don't try do display a client on both heads;
> >
> > - allow changing the "head" property for a client with a keyboard-bound
> > function while preserving other attributes of the client (tagset,
> > float/non-float);
> >
> > Do you think this makes sense?
>
> Yes, Christof Musik currently works on something like that. We
> specified a good multihead concept during last weekend and I
> believe you will like it!

Cool! I currently have only one monitor (the one in my laptop), but I'm
planning to buy an external one when I have some spare funds.

Regards,

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