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

 ah thanks Alex, I'll try the latest and greatest. Thanks everyone
for your assistance.

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Alex Kilgore <adkilgore_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> You would have to try a later version, 3.6 did not support xinerama, as it
> is quite old, the support came much later.
>
> Bryan Peters wrote:
>>
>> 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.
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>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Thomas Gallen <kaori.hinata_AT_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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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