Dave Airlie <airl...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Martin Cracauer <craca...@cons.org> wrote: >> Thanks for all the clarifications, Alex. >> >> I understand the desire to drop the lesser used of two similar >> subsystems, but it does present a real problem for me. >> >> To elaborate a little. >> >> Alex Deucher wrote on Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 06:16:25PM -0500: >>> > That there will be no way to have different virtual desktop switching >>> > on the two screens? Just Microsoft Windows style big span screen >>> > support? >>> >>> It can be done with zephyr or vnc I think. >> >> What I do with dual screens is this: >> - my right screen, the main screen, has virtual desktops, each of them >> holding one "project", where a project is something like: >> - bunch'a xterms and emacsens for hacking project 1 >> - a gimp session >> - bunch'a xterms and emacsens for hacking project 2 >> - bunch'a xterms for debugging a network problem >> - the left screen has one of them things: >> - a bunch of machine monitoring, IRC client, IM and assorted other >> status >> - or else a movie in xine >> - plus other virtual desktops that might holds things like google earth >> >> So when I work I want to switch the left screen between my projects, >> but the right screen should stay static. > > Thats actually a desktop environment/window manager issue, not a > driver issue. I think only one wm can do this so far, enlightenment. >
If I got it right and something really horrible hasn't happened then xmonad can do this too with Workspaces. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg