Christian G. Warden wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:15:56PM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:12:37PM -0400, Bryan Peters wrote:
Not quite sure what i'm doing wrong here. I want 2 separate instances
of wmii running on my dual monitor setup. I'm not concerned about
dragging windows from screen to screen, but I am concerned with each x
server being able to accept my mouse and keyboard commands.
It seems no matter what I do, my Secondary screen on the right of me
can interact fully with my mouse and keyboard, but the primary screen
in front of me can only interact with the mouse. It will not accept
any keyboard commands. And while the mouse can be dragged over to that
screen, it will not click on 'nil'. Mod+P doesn't work on the primary
screen to bring up dmenu, I can't open a terminal there, nothing.
wmii supports Xinerama. Is there some reason you can't use it instead?
There used to be some measures in place to ensure that two instances would
cooperate, but since that setup doesn't get much use any more, they may
have faded away a bit.
I tried upgrading my two-screen (no Xinerama) setup to hg a couple
days ago, and wmii would die when trying to start the second instance
on the second screen. I didn't have time to troubleshoot much, so I'm
stuck on my ancient version of wmii for now.
I haven't tried Xinerama yet, but not having separate tags per screen
is probably the biggest reason not to switch to Xinerama. Not being
able to change resolution of one of my screens (assuming Wikipedia is
correct about this) when switching from a monitor to a projector would
be another smaller annoyance.
Christian
I would guess that it's trying to bind on the same socket. Try manually
setting the WMII_ADDRESS.
