On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 08:27:50AM -0500, Marco Fonseca wrote:
> Marc Wilson wrote:
> >There's that moving windows between monitors again.  Why would this be
> >necessary, or desirable?  Start the app on the monitor you want it on in
> >the first place.
> >
> >Is that *really* the only thing you find important about multi-head?
> >
> 
> I wouldn't discount this because you don't find it useful  There many 
> times I would just like to move an already running app out of the way 
> quickly and can't do it because of head boundary.

IMHO this is why window managers have virtual desktops.  I use six on each
head.  Usually four of each six have a plan as to what's running on them,
and the other two on each head are for parking things when I don't need
them.

> Additionally (although rare) there are those times I would like to
> stretch an app to span both heads.  Without xinerama this is not
> possible.

And this is the stated, documented, and implemented reason for and behavior
of Xinerama in relation to blackbox.

I'm not against Xinerama.  If you like it, use it.  I do, from time to
time.  But I *am* against imposing artificial limits on what windows do,
just because I've selected it.  If I'm using Xinerama, and I tell that
window to *maximize*, it better damn well *maximize*.  Across both heads.

Anything else is the window manager trying to do my thinking for me.

-- 
Marc Wilson
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