Re: [wmii] Separate Wmii instances on Matrox Millennium G450 DualHead

3.6 in Ubuntu 8.04. I tried it out on a single monitor on arch over
the weekend and liked it and thought it would be great to use at work.

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Thomas Gallen <kaori.hinata_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> That's strange. On my dual head setup each screen is separated by the
> unmovable center line like I'd expect it to. Windows don't stretch
> across the whole screen like they used to on older versions of Wmii.
> Only across the screen on which they appear (initially).
>
> However, the idea of having different tags per screen has been attractive
> to others on this mailing list before. Curious, what version of Wmii are
> you using?
>
> Thomas
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:19:22PM -0400, Bryan Peters wrote:
>> I honestly don't like the way it plays with Xinerama turned on.
>> Windows auto stretch across both monitors and won't stick to one
>> monitor.  Also the idea of having to windows with their individual
>> tagging is appealing.   I initially got the idea from here:
>>
>> http://osdir.com/ml/window-managers.wmii/2007-10/msg00050.html
>>
>> But that was 2 years ago I guess.
>>
>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Kris Maglione <maglione.k_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:12:37PM -0400, Bryan Peters wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Not quite sure what i'm doing wrong here. I want 2 separate instances
>> >> of wmii running on my dual monitor setup. I'm not concerned about
>> >> dragging windows from screen to screen, but I am concerned with each x
>> >> server being able to accept my mouse and keyboard commands.
>> >>
>> >> It seems no matter what I do, my Secondary screen on the right of me
>> >> can interact fully with my mouse and keyboard, but the primary screen
>> >> in front of me can only interact with the mouse. It will not accept
>> >> any keyboard commands. And while the mouse can be dragged over to that
>> >> screen, it will not click on 'nil'. Mod+P doesn't work on the primary
>> >> screen to bring up dmenu, I can't open a terminal there, nothing.
>> >
>> > wmii supports Xinerama. Is there some reason you can't use it instead? There
>> > used to be some measures in place to ensure that two instances would
>> > cooperate, but since that setup doesn't get much use any more, they may have
>> > faded away a bit.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Kris Maglione
>> >
>> > It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
>> >        --Mark Twain
>> >
>> >
>> >
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Received on Mon May 18 2009 - 16:31:20 UTC