Re: [dwm] We need a different Xinerama implementation

From: cdr <__AT_whats-your.name>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:51:09 -0500

On Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 06:44:56AM +0000, David Edmondson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
> > I more and more come to the conclusion that classical multihead
> > support is not worth the effort anymore. The DISPLAY= variable
> > should do the trick for those setups (meaning running separate
> > instances of dwm for each screen) -- but Xinerama provides much
> > more possibilities so that I see a different use case here.
>
> I've no interest in classic multihead (today!). Are there many reasons
> why having a single window manager for multiple DISPLAYs is
> compelling?

im going to vote a big 'why bother' as well. been using a dwm per DISPLAY for a long time without any problem

   { MODKEY, XK_q, spawn, "exec xwarppointer screen +" }, \

switches fast and easy..
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