On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I more and more come to the conclusion that classical multihead > support is not worth the effort anymore. The DISPLAY= variable > should do the trick for those setups (meaning running separate > instances of dwm for each screen) -- but Xinerama provides much > more possibilities so that I see a different use case here.
I've no interest in classic multihead (today!). Are there many reasons why having a single window manager for multiple DISPLAYs is compelling? > I consider different tagsets for each screen, which can't be > selected in a join way, to prevent the basic problem of being > unable to display the same window on different screens. A couple of things occur to me about this: > Maybe somewhat into the direction of having a 2D tagset, with y > addressing different screens (yiyus or pancake came up with this > idea if I remember correctly) for the Xinerama case, and y > addressing different virtual screens for the non Xinerama case. > > Hence, say tags 1-4 address screen 1, tags 5-9 address screen 2 > or so, but tagging a client 1+5 is not possible. This should > give you a rough idea. > > Please let me know what you think. > > Kind regards, > -- > Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361 > >
