On 03/06/2009 12:03 PM, Gregor Best wrote:

> That's no bug in awful.client.toggletag(). A client can only appear on one
> screen at a time. You should make sure only one of those two tags can be seen
> simultaneously and then change c.screen accordingly. This is because else you
> could show both of the tags at the same time, which would require X11 to draw
> the client on two different positions at the same time, which is not possible.
> That's no limitation of awesome alone, it's a limitation of the X window 
> system.


That's not totally right. It is certainly possible to draw the same window 
(though
with the same dimensions i have to admit) on two different screens. The keyword
is... XComposite which is stable for years now, and definitely the mid-term 
future
of X11.

<rant>
I am still wondering, that awesome is so "future"-like (XCB, XDG config dirs, 
etc.)
but it still does not add a backend of probably the biggest change in usability
possibilities in X11 of the last 10 years.
</rant>

That said, I probably should just find time for that myself, as Julien at least
did at least seem to accept a well written patch for that, but I am not sure,
if that has changed in the meantime.

--
Martin

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