Re: [dwm] xinerama, things get more and more useful

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 05:33:03 -0500
hiro <23hiro_AT_googlemail.com> wrote:

> > I just tried the last hg version, and I am a bit disappointed.
> > The idea to divide up the tags between the screens isn't really
> > ergonomic.
> >
> > A dual (or more) screen, is particulary useful to have two or more
> > applications on a single view, for example a coding window and a
> > pdf research paper. With the new system, navigating between the
> > tags is really tedious; with wmii, I knew that my coding windows
> > (editor, doc...) were on tag '2'. A simple alt-2 and it was
> > restaured. With dwm old xinerama system, I had to press alt-2
> > foreach screen which was ok though less practical. Now I have to
> > remember two tag, on per screen, for each couple of application.
> >
> > The only advantage of this system is to remove the need to manually
> > toggle between the screens.
> >
> > Furthermore, if it was possible before to use a window covering the
> > whole display (blender for example) by switching to float mode,
> > the by enabling the same tag on each screen (yes it was painful),
> > it's not possible anymore.
> >
> > I really hope this is gonna change :(
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> Try xmonad, it's usable for the things i'm doing

I personnally have nothing against xmonad, but I have years of
experience in C programming, none in haskell, and I like to be able to
tweak my wm; I think I'm gonna write my own wm :/

-- 
Nicolas Martyanoff
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