I am wondering if anyone has come across solutions, or cooked up your own, for making use of the extra screen real estate instead of having black bars (assuming one doesn't want to stretch the content horizontally). My current notion is to setup something like gkrellm or other transparent desktop widgets over a peaceful background (possibly black), and use explicit X geometry for startup of multiple windows. I'm also wondering whether something like oddly-shaped (tall) VNC desktops could be useful for this, so re-attachment or swapping of L/R regions could be eased. Personally, I want something not too "busy" but able to show arbitrary status (I like gkrellm's plugins for that extensibility so far plus refresh is variable) and want to cover both passive monitoring and active interruptions if need be. I'm not delving into pausing/timeshifting playback when an interruption occurs, I'll leave that to someone's API I hope :)
Any ideas, folks?
tnx,
Ben
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