On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:47:29AM +0100, Nicolas Martyanoff wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:01:39 +0100 > "Anselm R. Garbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There are kind a lot of caveats in current hg tip, but I > > encourage early adaptors to give it a try and to update from > > time to time, and to report bugs. > > > > The worst caveat atm is that the focus handling among different > > views (screens) might need mouse assistance in some cases, so > > I'm aware of this already. > > > > http://www.suckless.org/shots/dwm-xinerama-new.png > > > > Kind regards, > > I just tried the last hg version, and I am a bit disappointed. > The idea to divide up the tags between the screens isn't really > ergonomic. > > A dual (or more) screen, is particulary useful to have two or more > applications on a single view, for example a coding window and a pdf > research paper. With the new system, navigating between the tags is > really tedious; with wmii, I knew that my coding windows (editor, > doc...) were on tag '2'. A simple alt-2 and it was restaured. With dwm > old xinerama system, I had to press alt-2 foreach screen which was ok > though less practical. Now I have to remember two tag, on per screen, > for each couple of application. > > The only advantage of this system is to remove the need to manually > toggle between the screens. > > Furthermore, if it was possible before to use a window covering the > whole display (blender for example) by switching to float mode, the by > enabling the same tag on each screen (yes it was painful), it's not > possible anymore. > > I really hope this is gonna change :( >
Well, in my opinion you use tagging in a different way than me. I mainly use unrelated programs on different views, so the initial idea as presented in hg tip atm fits very well. Also, I regularly view more than a single tag on a specific screen, so you might consider using different tags for the same application (e.g. having the pdf viewer in a 'doc' tag, and the editor in an 'ed' tag) - with both tags remaining to different views. Kind regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
