Re: [wmii] wmii xsession file for dualhead

On Sun, May 21 16:17, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 03:22:46PM +0200, Uwe Voelker wrote:
> > I would like to use wmii-3 on a dualhead machine. I have installed the
> > debian package and I'm using gdm.
> >
> > The following xsessions file (/usr/share/xsessions/wmii.desktop) does
> > only start wmii on one screen:
> >
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Encoding=UTF-8
> > Name=Wmii
> > Comment=Window manager improved 3
> > Exec=wmii
> > Icon=wmii.png
> > Type=XSession
> >
> >
> > Can you please help me, what I have to put in this file to get wmii
> > started on both heads?
> >
> > (I know it must be something with DISPLAY=0 and DISPLAY=1, but I don't
> > know further.)
>
> You have to exec a wmii instance for each physical head. I'm not
> sure the Exec= entry in those Xsession files would support this.
>
> Thus, wether you uninstall gdm and start X with startx, or you
> write a small sh script which runs two wmii instances for both
> heads, which is called with the exec command in your session
> file.
>
> If you remove gdm, the lines should look as follows in
> $HOME/.xinitrc:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> DISPLAY=:0.0 wmii &
> DISPLAY=:0.1 wmii

Here's what I do so that I don't have to care if there's another X
session running.

DISPLAY=:$(echo $DISPLAY|cut -c 2).0 exec /usr/local/bin/wmii &
DISPLAY=:$(echo $DISPLAY|cut -c 2).1 exec /usr/local/bin/wmii

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redondos