On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:10:00PM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:38:37AM +0200, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > >I have started using wmi since 2 weeks so i'm still more/less newbie > >regarding > >wmii, I just want to know how xinerema does work with wmii, coz ATM i can > >only > >use it in floating mode, otherwize window will occupy both monitors and > >since > >one is 1280x768(left LCD) and one is 1280x1024(Right CRT), the window will > >be > >displayed wrong on the smaller screen.
You can use multihead setups during meantime until wmii-4 in October. > Wmii currently has no Xinerama support. Work has just begun to add it, but > it will only be added to wmii-4. In wmii-3, you can create 2 columns and > manually size them to not cross the screen. Currently, in wmii-4, you can > define a set of colrules to automatically create columns of the correct > size. Xinerama support in wmii-4 will involve showing a single tag on each > screen. Showing different tags on a Xinerama multiscreen won't work, because a client can only be visible in one position at a time. If I have two 1600x1200 screens and a client tagged 1+2 it is technically impossible to display it on both Xinerama screens at the same time. I think that Xinerama support needs the refactoring of Area. In particular, we need to replace area with something like: - Floating area struct (Xinerama display wide) - Column layout struct (Xinerama screen related) - Column Each View contains 1 floating area struct, and n (=number of screens) column layout structs. On column layout boundaries we will populate a move to the other screen. I think this is the most simple approach which only needs very small changes and scales well up to more displays (however, I only expect to support line-based Xinerama setups, matrix based will not be supported. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
