Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2008-01-14 Thread Stefan Maerkl
Christian Garbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 12.01.2008 um 00:36: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:27:09PM +0100, Sander van Dijk wrote: On Jan 11, 2008 5:16 PM, Stefan Maerkl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the second head, one could display just an empty window labelled On head 1. Maybe in a

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2008-01-14 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Stefan Maerkl wrote: Christian Garbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 12.01.2008 um 00:36: The inactive head gets a static, perhaps greyed out version of the window in question. The active head has the real window with focus, input and output. When you move your mouse to the inactive window or

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2008-01-11 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Anselm R. Garbe wrote: One problem with using a subset of your tags for a different screen occures, if a window is tagged with a tag from one screen and with another tag from a different screen. We cannot display a window on two screens, at least not mirrored (Xinerama allows to display portions

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2008-01-11 Thread Stefan Maerkl
Antoni Grzymala [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 11.01.2008 um 17:07: pancake dixit (2008-01-11, 15:36): maybe someone who is showing a window to another ppl on a external monitor or projector not visible by the one who is working on the local monitor. This has been discussed on the list

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2008-01-11 Thread Sander van Dijk
On Jan 11, 2008 5:16 PM, Stefan Maerkl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the second head, one could display just an empty window labelled On head 1. Maybe in a special colour or so. You're joking, right?... Right?

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2007-12-11 Thread pancake
Why not just keep it simple and store a seltags[] for each monitor and a single variable indicating which is the current monitor selected? This way you can achieve any of the possibilities (show the same client in both monitors, move a window from one to another, etc.. For me this approach looks

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2007-12-11 Thread Chris Webb
pancake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This way you can achieve any of the possibilities (show the same client in both monitors, move a window from one to another, etc.. X doesn't give you a mechanism for showing the same client on both monitors. Best wishes, Chris.

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2007-12-11 Thread Antoni Grzymala
Chris Webb dixit (2007-12-11, 13:11): This way you can achieve any of the possibilities (show the same client in both monitors, move a window from one to another, etc.. X doesn't give you a mechanism for showing the same client on both monitors. Ah, that solves my dilemma. I thought

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2007-12-10 Thread Anselm R. Garbe
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:10:14PM +0100, Antoni Grzymala wrote: Anselm R. Garbe dixit (2007-12-09, 18:27): [snip] One idea I was playing in my mind with for a while was assigning some of the tags to the other display and move between the displays seamlessly as if moving between the

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2007-12-10 Thread Antoni Grzymala
Anselm R. Garbe dixit (2007-12-10, 10:18): I think this discussion is going in the right direction. My suggestion to marry those two contradicting views would be like this: - in normal circumstances two heads act like two separate dwm instances (the way I guess most people are doing

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2007-12-10 Thread Ritesh Kumar
On Dec 10, 2007 4:11 AM, Chris 'Ducky' Chapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is sort of what I've done. I run dwm at work with a 2 head xinerama setup, so added a side attribute to the client struct and added a function to toggle it. Then I just copied and adjusted the tile function to

[dwm] Xinerama support

2007-12-09 Thread Anselm R. Garbe
Hi there, could you imagine that there is a way that dwm could be used in a Xinerama environment and how that might look like? Regardless if that is necessary or not for mainstream dwm, I see the following possibilities: - aim multihead setup (distinct bars, tag sets and layouts for each

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2007-12-09 Thread Anselm R. Garbe
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 12:54:00PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: could you imagine that there is a way that dwm could be used in a Xinerama environment and how that might look like? Regardless if that is necessary or not for mainstream dwm, I see the following possibilities: - aim

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2007-12-09 Thread Anselm R. Garbe
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 12:59:21PM +0100, Maarten Maathuis wrote: A shared tagging setup, but a flag to indicate primary or secondary head. Sort of like adding an extra dimension to dwm. That sounds like a simple solution, but still very similiar to aiming the multihead setup. But how to

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2007-12-09 Thread David Tweed
On Dec 9, 2007 11:54 AM, Anselm R. Garbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you imagine that there is a way that dwm could be used in a Xinerama environment and how that might look like? [A collective groan goes around as people realise I'm still around :-) ] Yes and

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2007-12-09 Thread Anselm R. Garbe
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 02:12:48PM +0100, Engin Tola wrote: pancake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Recently I buyed a 20 16:10 tft, and i really feel interesting to have xinerama with dwm. Thinking about that I got the idea that we should just store two variables: - selected tag for each

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2007-12-09 Thread Kurt H Maier
Seems like this would call for an alternative layout to be #included, which allows for the large-resolution screen-spanning desktop, and it could just emulate multihead by tiling / maximizing windows to those sections of the desktop which are displayed on each screen. These boundaries could be

Re: [dwm] Xinerama support

2007-12-09 Thread Antoni Grzymala
Anselm R. Garbe dixit (2007-12-09, 18:27): [snip] One idea I was playing in my mind with for a while was assigning some of the tags to the other display and move between the displays seamlessly as if moving between the tags - I guess I'll still have the problem of not being able to move