Re: [wmii] Dual-monitor setup

What version of wmii is this? I don't have the /view/ directory or the
geom files.

On 10/8/07, dragan dimitrijevic <dragandm_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> This may not apply to your version of wmii but you can use the same
> principle:
>
> address=unix!/tmp/ns.$USER.:0.$display/wmii
> view=`wmiir -a $address read /view/name`
> x=`wmiir -a $address read /$view/sel/sel/geom | awk '{ print $1}'`
> y=`wmiir -a $address read /$view/sel/sel/geom | awk '{ print $2}'`
> DISPLAY=:0.$display wmiiwarp $x $y
>
> Moving from one screen to the other will warp the mouse to the last selected
> window.
>
>
>
>
> On 10/7/07, Jakob <jakob_AT_pipefour.org> wrote:
> > I've had more than one request for my dual-monitor wmii configuration,
> > so I thought I'd send it out to the list.
> >
> > Instead of using Xinerama or two completely different X sessions, I use
> > a single X session with two screens. This allows you to natively move
> > the cursor from monitor to monitor and share the clipboard between the
> > two without having to use additional software like Synergy. I use a
> > dual-output nVidia video card, though this method might/should work if
> > you have two separate cards.
> >
> > Relevant xorg.conf sections:
> >
> > http://pipefour.org/wmii/xorg.conf
> >
> > This will allow you to start a single X session with two screens, : x.0
> > and :x.1. So, if this is the first X session on the box, you can start
> > programs on both :0.0 (the left monitor) and :0.1 (the right one).
> >
> > Then, to start two instances of wmii, I have this in my .xinitrc (or
> > .xsession, depending on your system):
> >
> > DISPLAY=:0.0 wmii &
> > DISPLAY=:0.1 exec wmii
> >
> > This can probably be made better so the :0 isn't hardcoded, and so the
> > second instance isn't just exec'd. This means that if you exit the
> > first session, the second wmii will still keep going. If you exit the
> > second one, your entire X session dies regardless of the other wmii
> > instance.
> >
> > I also have a slightly modified version of swarp to allow me to easily
> > switch back and forth between my two monitors using hotkeys. In its
> > current form, it only uses the current display, so I changed it to allow
> > you to use -d to specify the display (again, this could be cleaned up):
> >
> > http://pipefour.org/wmii/swarp.c
> >
> > And then in my wmiirc:
> >
> > Key $MODKEY-Control-Shift-$RIGHT
> > swarp -d :0.1 840 525
> > Key $MODKEY-Control-Shift-$LEFT
> > swarp -d :0.0 640 515
> >
> > Yes, those are the hard-coded coordinates of the center of each of my
> > screens. If you find a better solution, please tell me :).
> >
> > As my original email said, there's a bug in the current wmii snap with
> > focus after closing a window, so the focus consistently goes to the
> > wrong monitor with my setup. If you find this to be too annoying, the
> > previous snap (20070516) worked fine.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Jakob
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 18 2007 - 05:46:25 UTC