Re: Multi-, different- monitors is multi-hopeless?

2009-01-18 Thread ebik
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:55:53 -0500 (EST) Benjamin R. Haskell i...@benizi.com wrote: Argh. I'm an idiot. I assumed since mod_xrandr was loaded that mod_xinerama had been loaded, too. This is working well for me, too, now. Thanks, and sorry for the noise. I don't use mod_xrandr, for me it is

Re: Multi-, different- monitors is multi-hopeless?

2009-01-18 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-01-18, ebik e...@drak.ucw.cz wrote: I don't use mod_xrandr, for me it is useless since it doesn't support xrandr 1.2. Xrandr 1.2 itself is useless shit-o-rama shit. *nix is dead. -- In 1995, Linux was almost a bicycle; an alternative way of live to the Windows petrol beasts that had

Re: Multi-, different- monitors is multi-hopeless?

2009-01-18 Thread ebik
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:48:52 + (UTC) Tuomo Valkonen tuo...@iki.fi wrote: On 2009-01-18, ebik e...@drak.ucw.cz wrote: I don't use mod_xrandr, for me it is useless since it doesn't support xrandr 1.2. Xrandr 1.2 itself is useless shit-o-rama shit. *nix is dead. Sorry for useless

Re: Multi-, different- monitors is multi-hopeless?

2009-01-18 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-01-18, ebik e...@drak.ucw.cz wrote: There is currently no option to multiple screens than xrandr today. Yes there is: it's called plain-old-X-multihead, or _the clean solution_ that doesn't smell of a rotten kludge to the other side of the globe. *Eugh*, adding more screens by

Re: Multi-, different- monitors is multi-hopeless?

2009-01-16 Thread Tomáš Ebenlendr
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:31:52 -0500 (EST) Benjamin R. Haskell i...@benizi.com wrote: Based mostly on the latest Shit-or-rama [Was: mod_xinerama] thread [1], I'm not optimistic about Ion emulating this setup. But is it an accurate statement that there is no nice way to use ion3 such that I get:

Re: Multi-, different- monitors is multi-hopeless?

2009-01-16 Thread Klaus Umbach
On 16/01/09 02:31, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: But, really, the only reason I've stayed with E17 so long is that it's the only window manager that handles multi-monitors the way I want it done. A lot of the choices behind Ion jive really well with what I actually want in a WM. (keyboard über

Re: Multi-, different- monitors is multi-hopeless?

2009-01-16 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Tomáš Ebenlendr wrote: I use mod_xinerama, xrandr, and lua script that changes ion's session string via ioncore.set_paths(). This suffices, as I need to restart ion3 (but not X nor applications) every time I switch xrandr configuration. This way I have one saved layout

Multi-, different- monitors is multi-hopeless?

2009-01-15 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
I have a laptop with an LCD w/ 1280x800 resolution, and an external CRT that's either at 1024x768, 1280x960, or unavailable (depending on whether I'm at work, home, or somewhere else, respectively). Here's what I've settled on in Enlightenment (E17): I have four desktops on each monitor.