On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Tuncer Ayaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Ritesh Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:27 PM, y i y u s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > well, I agree that the current Xinerama support is also not the > > > > way to go. First of all it is far to complex in the code for > > > > the benefit it implements. And around 90% of all dwm users have > > > > no Xinerama or Multihead support in my eyes. > > > > > > > > So I believe a real invention will be a tile() with Xinerama > > > > support instead and a status bar which can be positioned more > > > > flexible (just using a certain screen only to save screen real > > > > estate). > > > > > > > > > > As one of the users with just one monitor, I'm very happy with this > > > decision. Anyway, I will keep thinking about a good xinerama > > > implementation. > > > But what I would really like is a pre-release of st, what's the new > > > estimated time? I think we can forget about mid February... and a new > > > dwm would be great too, with or without xinerama. Any idea about when > > > all this will be available? (take your time, I'm just asking, you > > > know) > > > > > > > I too like the idea of abstracting the Xinerama code away from the main > dwm > > codebase. Given the debate on design choices, I am sure people will like > to > > keep different Xinerama layouts. It will be a good idea to give all the > > ideas time to evolve and incorporate the essential features into dwm > core. > > > > The bar is tricky... > > I don't use dual monitors but I know that I will not like looking at the > > "main" monitor for status information while I am working on the second > (or > > nth) monitor. If I were to take a shot, I would replicate the status bar > on > > each monitor with subtle differences in the content (say, for partition > > sets, I would highlight all the tags for that monitor). If I wanted > > real-estate I would use shortcuts to turn off bar display all together > from > > all screens. However, this is just my choice... the point I am trying to > > make is that there should be an easy way to hack similar features in > > Xinerama setups with dwm. > > So, I would recommend abstracting drawbar in layouts[]. > > > > Also, I too am very interested in st. I tried fetching it from > > http://www.suckless.org/cgi-bin/hg.rc/st but I got a 404-Not found :( > > what about: > $ hg clone http://www.suckless.org/hg.rc/st > Yup... that works. Thanks! _r
