On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 02:12:48PM +0100, Engin Tola wrote: > 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.
One problem with using a subset of your tags for a different screen occures, if a window is tagged with a tag from one screen and with another tag from a different screen. We cannot display a window on two screens, at least not mirrored (Xinerama allows to display portions of windows on different screens however) ;) So I only see the possibility to aim multihead. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
