On 2016-09-25, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-09-23, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > > [need to pick new desktop environment -- which could just be a window > manager with a couple extra bits] [...] > Windowmaker seems a bit too oriented towards "icons on the desktop" > which isn't how I want to work. [....] > LXDE looked good. [...] However, when I built lxde-meta and tried it > on a 3-screen machine, it fell over pretty badly. [...] > I liked openbox though, so if LXDE refuses to handle multiple screens > I may stick with openbox and try to find some other panel program > that does work with multiple screens.
Openbox+tint2 looks promising. Tint2 is a lightweight panel app that doesn't have the "only one instance allowed" restriction like lxpanel has. You run a separate instance of tint2 per panel, and it doesn't care how many instances you run or how many different screens or XServers they're running on. For optimal attractiveness, you may have to hand-tweak the tint2 colors and fonts to match the openbox theme, but that's a small price to pay for something that actually works. I still have to figure out one last tweak to openbox's behavior. When you do ctrl-alt-right/left it switches virtual desktops on the screen that has input focus, and I want it to switch on the screen where the mouse pointer is. I know it's trivial, and all you have to do is click before hitting ctrl-alt-right/left. But I'm old; change is hard :)
