On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Leon Smith wrote:
> Err... sorry , I accidentally sent the last email before I was finished...
>
> I have a dual monitor system, and the currently available multiheaded
> options do not meet my needs very well. I normally have a lot of
> applications running, and thus I tend to make heavy use of virtual
> workspaces. Unfortunately, it is difficult to use workspaces as effectively
> as I would like. For the sake of discussion, let's call what I want
> "separate, independent workspaces". Let me elaborate.
>
> If one wants to display something on a second monitor under Xinerama, then
> one simply draws something that is off the edge of the first. Xinerama
> makes two or more monitors look like one bigger monitor. However, the
> tendancy is that a window manager simply treats this as one big workspace.
> They are not separate workspaces.
This is a window manager issue.
>
> The other option is to treat each monitor as a different display. (i.e.
> localhost:0.0 and localhost:0.1) However, most applications don't have the
> ability to migrate between different X displays. This ties each
> application to a specific monitor, and doesn't allow me to display a
> workspace that is associated with display :0.0 on display :0.1 and vice
> versa. This is very artificial and constantly gets in my way. For
> example, what if I want to view two applications associated with the same
> monitor at the same time?
>
> This, in turn, ties each workspace to a particular monitor. I want each
> workspace to be independant of any monitor. In a sense, this creates two
> "pools" of workspaces, one for each monitor. I want two monitors to share
> the same "pool" of workspaces.
>
> Now, it is practically impossible to write window manager that implements
> separate, independant workspaces without the using the Xinerama extensions.
> However, to implent this idea using the Xinerama extensions is widely
> recognized as very difficult.
Why is that?
>
> Worse, to do this robustly is believed by some (including me) to be nearly
> impossible under Xinerama. Xinerama introduces a whole host of
> compilcations, not least of which is that widows have a tendancy to pop up
> on mulitple monitors. Despite Enlightenment's efforts in this regard, it
> has been my experience that this feature still doesn't work very well.
> Besides, I do not much care for Enlightenment.
These are window manager issues not server issues.
Mark.
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