On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:55:36 +0100, Richard Riley wrote: > Dave Airlie <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Martin Cracauer > > <[email protected]> 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.
Yeah, a colleague at work uses xmonad with two screens and it does that, same with Awesome which he was using previously IIRC. Andrew _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
