On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Ondřej Grover <[email protected]> wrote: > > But then one day I try to plug in a monitor when I'm about to give a > presentation. I prepared a special tag for it. Suddenly, all windows > stuff up on one, new workspace (Shifty's fault). OK, but even if I > retag my windows again, the new VGA screen has a different set of > tags, so I cannot display my presentation on VGA and notes + > presentation on laptop. I knew that Awesome restarts on screen > geomtery change, but didn't comprehend such consequences. > So, my problem may come from these two things:
Why can't you on VGA have tag[1].name = 'Present', open OOo there and leave tag[1].name = 'notes' on LVDS? Then just move the apps to the different tags as desired. If you check my config I have a tasklist menu that allows you to send clients to a new tag, even on the other screen. Yes, the restart on screen changes is such a pita, but for shifty you can do some pre-configuring for the tags to appear only if the 2nd monitor attached, etc.. > 1) If Awesome restarts on every screen change, what is the easiest > way to conserve the current taglist(s) an respective layouts with > Shifty? I can imagine that with vanilla Awesome I could put some if > defined test for taglist, but even then I'm not sure if that would > conserve the layouts. I would have to add another check for layouts > too I guess. What I'm looking for is some reference implementation. I > hope I won't have to fork Shifty and I'm just missing something. > So far I haven't found anything useful, maybe most people use Awesome > only in a static multi monitor setup. There really is no way currently to preserve tag settings (that are not pre-configured) across awesome restarts. Vanilla awesome does no better in this regard. > 2) Is it possible to share a tag pool among all screens? You can never 'truly' share a tag pool, but you can trick yourself into it. Just assign positions to tags (shifty exclusive) and its irrespective of the screen. You can also move tags across screens if you want. > I'm looking forward to any kind of suggestions, including those > pointing me towards a different WM that could fit my needs better (not > sure if dwm can share tags among screens). Xmonad might support a global tag pool (?) but tbh the config makes my eyes bleed. -- perry -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
