(Sigh, send before finished, sorry) On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:44 AM, David Edmondson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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: - whether it is a problem depends on how people expect to use their system. I my case I find the distinct tagsets per monitor very confusing (tested with awesome - not tried dwm tip yet). I tend to remember which applications have a particular tag, so it's easy to make those applications come 'here' (to the monitor I'm looking at) easily. The 'partitioned' tagset (1-4 on monitor 1, 5-8 on monitor 2) would make this more difficult, particularly if I decide that I'd like to see tagsets 1 and 3 side by side. - we could do something more interesting in the case where multiple monitors show the same tags. For example, if monitor 1 and monitor 2 both show tag 1, we might treat monitor 2 as a part of the "right hand side". Divide it into two columns and effectively have a "main column + three residuals" layout.
dme.
