On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:12:21PM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:30:42PM +0200, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:35:55AM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > > > 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, > > > > If it needs very small changes, can you please create a patch > > against 3.1 so i can see how well it is with xinerama?? > > However i think it might not work in my case, because I have > > one `wide' LCD monitor at 1280x768, and a normal CRT monitor > > at 1024x768 ( it was before at 1280x1024 but It was eating the > > half of the left coloumn :(, maybe it works with youit > > approch, instead of having 2 coloums with width equal, maybe > > define somewhere left coloumn width ?? even hardcoded ATM. > > No, the change is not that small that it would be worth the > effort to waste the time fiddling in the wmii-3.1 code which > cannot be re-used for wmii-4 in the end, except you pay me for > doing so ;) > > Regards,
What about a patch against latest wmii-4 snapshot ?? -- Wael Nasreddine http://wael.nasreddine.com PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 .: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs, would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :.
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