On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 21:36:54 +0200 Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]> wrote:
> It may be possible to do so using the "region" directive in the config file
> to create a region big enough to cover both screens; I haven't tested it,
> though, and AFAIK that setting is meant to work around proprietary drivers.
I have tested this setup today and indeed, with both the laptop monitor and
the external one running at 1024x768, with VGA-0 --right-of LVDS, adding
region = screen[1]:2048x760+0+0
to the configuration file and restarting scrotwm was enough to make each
workspace span both monitors.
This setup presents some minor glitches; namely, when switching to a empty
workspace the contents of the previously-focused workspace are displayed
until you spawn a new window.
Moreover, the available space is not divided evenly between the two phisical
monitors: if two windows are tiled vertically, a small strip of one window
overflows the monitor it belongs to and is displayed on the other one.
I would file separate bugs reports for these issues, and close this one
after adding a couple of lines in the manpage explaining that the "region"
directive can be used to make workspaces span multiple monitors.
Would it be OK to you?
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Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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