pancake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently I buyed a 20" 16:10 tft, and i really feel interesting to have > xinerama with dwm. Thinking about that I got the idea that we should just > store two variables: > > - selected tag for each monitor (static array?) > - focused monitor index > > This way we can add some functions over these concepts to switch focus > between monitors. > > This would be really nice if you're going to use an external monitor or > a "projector" to give a talk, you can have different contents on each > monitor and work "out" of the view for the public. > > What do you think about this behaviour? > > --pancake
I work with 2 monitors at work and for this purpose I launch 2 dwm instances one for each display. I also use switchscreen* utility to move between the displays. One problem I have -as you can guess - is that I cannot move a program launched in one display to the other one. One idea I was playing in my mind with for a while was assigning some of the tags to the other display and move between the displays seamlessly as if moving between the tags -> I guess I'll still have the problem of not being able to move the programs between other-display-tags but it'd look more natural and I won't have to invoke switchscreen separately. For my taste, treating different displays as different tag sets is a better solution than defining a very large display where one tag spreads over both of the screens. But of course the ability to move program windows between the displays is quite handy, too. So, I agree with you pancake. having different contents on screens is really nice for presentations and like. * http://users.tkk.fi/~spniskan/switchscreen/ [snip] -- engin tola - http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~tola emacs - http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour
