I have been using dual-head setup for a long time now. the one thing
that would be useful to me would be placement of windows starting in the
top left [0,0] and cascade down the screen. this is done now, but would
be better to have each window pop-up over top of the last w/ an offset
of say 15x and 15y pixels. this would give you enough room to see the
title bar w/out taking up desktop real estate when opening multiple
windows ie. gimp, this would be vary handy.
It may also be good to look into making it so programs don't try and
span both desktops ie. bbConf. I switched to WhiteBox to fix that
problem.
I noticed in one email it was mentioned the mozilla does this spanning
allot. As a designer, I have written all my scripts to check for screen
size and make sure its not going to span both monitors.
I would like to say that even if these issues do not get address, I will
not be leaving my beloved bb desktop.
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 03:24:51 +0100
Mattias Ekl�f <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So, does anyone else on the list use xinerama (either with blackbox
> > or not) and/or have any suggestions for behavior that would be nice
> > to tune in blackbox when using it? Some possiblities:
>
> > * Window placement: this is the biggie for me. I use mostly xterms
> > plus the odd mozilla, emacs, evolution, xmms window, etc., so have
> > bbkeys set up to launch my favs from key combos. Often I'll drop
> > xterms across the top of a workspace like that, then run something
> > else to fill the space below. When running xinerama the new app
> > plops into the next head over, because there's still space at the
> > top of my 3200x1200 desktop area. I can think of several possible
> > strategies that seem better to me...
> > - always place windows in whatever region of the desktop the
> > monitor
> > with the pointer in it covers. (This is what I like, and the
> > attached patch implements it, with some bugs still. Downside is the
> > potential non-intuitiveness. Upside is that windows are associated
> > with your current "attention area," and it makes it easy to turn off
> > one monitor to save power/reduce heat some of the time.)
> > - first try the region of desktop the the monitor with the pointer
> > covers, if there's not enough room, try the other monitors, if they
> > don't have enough room either, then use the monitor with the pointer
> > after all. (I can see the argument for this: more intuitive for
> > first time user perhaps, and makes it easier to tile your workspace
> > appropriately.)
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