On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:33:51AM +0200, Uwe Voelker wrote: > > >>Moving the mouse and clicking in the second screen and Alt-Enter opens > >>the terminal on the first screen. > > > > This is a known problem and should be fixed in wmii-3.1 in some > > weeks. The problem is, that it didn't occured with Xnest > > multihead setups for me... But this might be related how Xnest > > handles pointer events. > > I mapped two keys to this (lineak): > > Backward = DISPLAY=:0.0 wmiiwarp 1 1 > Forward = DISPLAY=:0.1 wmiiwarp 1 1 > > It works, but I find myself moving the mouse (and wondering my I can't > input) too often and the 1 1 is a bad position when using stacking (it > focuses the title bar and not the active window). It should save the > current mouse position and when the same head is activated again, it > reads it and uses this instead of "1 1". > > I have waited since november for wmii-3, so I can wait for wmii-3.1 too. > > > See http://files.aoeu.info/wmii/ for further info about > > multihead setups with wmii. > > Thanks, very interesting. > > > I have a further question: > How can I send keystrokes to the other screen? > > I would like to send cursor movements (up, down, page up, page down) to > the inactive head. So I could scroll a website or document without > leaving my "working session" (for instance when following an install guide).
Whenever you prepend DISPLAY=:n.m <command> it will be executed on the specific head. For internal commands like select you need to access the specific socket (use the $WMII_ADDRESS of the specific screen instead). Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
