Re: [dwm] Xinerama: back to the roots

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Ritesh Kumar <ritesh_AT_cs.unc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:27 PM, y i y u s <yiyu.jgl_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >
> > > > well, I agree that the current Xinerama support is also not the
> > > > way to go. First of all it is far to complex in the code for
> > > > the benefit it implements. And around 90% of all dwm users have
> > > > no Xinerama or Multihead support in my eyes.
> > > >
> > > > So I believe a real invention will be a tile() with Xinerama
> > > > support instead and a status bar which can be positioned more
> > > > flexible (just using a certain screen only to save screen real
> > > > estate).
> > > >
> > >
> > > As one of the users with just one monitor, I'm very happy with this
> > > decision. Anyway, I will keep thinking about a good xinerama
> > > implementation.
> > > But what I would really like is a pre-release of st, what's the new
> > > estimated time? I think we can forget about mid February... and a new
> > > dwm would be great too, with or without xinerama. Any idea about when
> > > all this will be available? (take your time, I'm just asking, you
> > > know)
> > >
> >
> > I too like the idea of abstracting the Xinerama code away from the main
> dwm
> > codebase. Given the debate on design choices, I am sure people will like
> to
> > keep different Xinerama layouts. It will be a good idea to give all the
> > ideas time to evolve and incorporate the essential features into dwm
> core.
> >
> > The bar is tricky...
> > I don't use dual monitors but I know that I will not like looking at the
> > "main" monitor for status information while I am working on the second
> (or
> > nth) monitor. If I were to take a shot, I would replicate the status bar
> on
> > each monitor with subtle differences in the content (say, for partition
> > sets, I would highlight all the tags for that monitor). If I wanted
> > real-estate I would use shortcuts to turn off bar display all together
> from
> > all screens. However, this is just my choice... the point I am trying to
> > make is that there should be an easy way to hack similar features in
> > Xinerama setups with dwm.
> > So, I would recommend abstracting drawbar in layouts[].
> >
> > Also, I too am very interested in st. I tried fetching it from
> > http://www.suckless.org/cgi-bin/hg.rc/st but I got a 404-Not found :(
>
> what about:
> $ hg clone http://www.suckless.org/hg.rc/st
>

Yup... that works. Thanks!

_r
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