Hi Julien and William, Thank you for your help with this. This concept is very new to me.
A way to rephrase my question is: is it possible to have tags *NOT* be specific to a particular (physical) screen? Ie, is it possible to have both my screens share the same pool of tags? I would like it if "tag 2" in my left-hand-side screen referred to the same tag as "tag 2" on my right-hand-side screen. In that scenario, navigating to "tag 2" on either screen would show the same windows. Did this make any sense? thank you! ~l ----- Original Message ----- From: William LÉCHELLE <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Sent: Monday, July 2, 2012 10:02 PM Subject: Re: desktop is common across/shared by both screens? On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:18:34 -0700 (PDT), Lara Michaels spake thus: >hello, >a quick question when using two monitors with the current version of awesome: >Currently my left and right screens can both simultanously display the >contents of "desktop 1", yet show different windows! You're probably confusing a few things. First, better awesomers than I am would say it's not "desktop 1" as much as "tag 1", since you can have multiple tags on the same window, as well as multiple tags displayed at the same time, it's not like they were different desktops. Then, if I understand correctly what you describe, it's not the same "desktop 1" on each screen… > Ie, both the panel on the >left screen as well as the panel on the right screen tell me that screen is >showing me "desktop 1" … only it's "desktop 1" on different desktop lists. Each screen has it's own tags list. If you look at rc.lua, you should find ,---- | for s = 1, screen.count() do | … | … | mytaglist[s] = awful.widget.taglist(s, awful.widget.taglist.label.all, mytaglist.buttons) `---- because a different taglist is created for each, really. You could name them differently, for instance. > yet in one I have an xterm open and in the other >nothing. Is it possible to have each desktop be "confined" to a phsyical >screen? They probably are, and have each one their own taglist. Maybe what you want to >do is have them display each one one tag of the same taglist, but maybe you >can get along with having 2x9 tags instead of just 9 (assuming you keep >defaults). >thank you for any clarification! ~l Hope I'm not just being less clear than Julien who took me /de vitesse/. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
