Hello! Thank you very much! That's exactly what I needed. I see after some searching for information on "Priority" it looks like you provided insight: https://phab.enlightenment.org/T3030
I'd like to echo TwoD's suggestion "Maybe add a short help text in the application itself about the priority concept?" or something similar. However, thank you. -- Joseph Ghobrial Systems Analyst II Office of Information Technology Rice University jghobrial@ rice.edu x5190 On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 13:29:47 -0600 Joseph Ghobrial <jghobr...@rice.edu> > said: > > > Hi all, I recently switched back to enlightenment. I'm using it on a > > laptop with 2 external displays connected. I disconnect the displays > > from time to time. The question I have is how to deal with a shelf that > > exists on an external display that gets disconnected once in awhile > > which means the shelf "disappears." I've taken to having two shelves so > > when I disconnect I'm not without a shelf, but that's duplication and > > not desirable. > > > > My thoughts are to have a shelf associated with a "primary" display, but > > don't see a way of doing that in the E Settings i.e. tagging a display > > as primary and having the shelf understand that. Other thoughts are to > > have the shelf exist on all the displays. What are other people doing? > > Is there some other way of doing this? > > use priority. basically the MAIN screen is the one with the highest > priority of > all screens around at the time. using this you can assign your external > screen > with a higher priority than the internal one. this means you can have your > main > screen MIGRATE to the external screen when plugged in (and migrate back in > when > unplugged)... screens are ordered from highest to lowest priority in the > list > of screen 0, 1, 2, 3, ... etc. and screen 0 is your "primary" screen - > then in > order of priority down the list... set up priorities right and you can have > screen 0 and thus its wallpaper and its shelf and all its content migrate > from > screen to screen as you see fit. > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
