Charles Cox wrote:
> ...
> The big tradeoffs for me are:
> 1) Ability to move a window from one screen to the other
> 2) Ability to switch workspaces on one screen without affecting the other
>
> Regular multihead gives you 2 but not 1.  Xinerama gives you 1 but not 
> 2.  I want both.  :-)
>
> By the very nature of Xinerama, I don't see how it could ever be made 
> to do #2, so I think it's out. ... 
Not really.  Xinerama allows all X clients, including window managers,
to query the display topology.  You can see this by doing "xdpyinfo -ext 
XINERAMA":

  $ xdpyinfo -ext XINERAMA
  ...
  XINERAMA version 1.1 opcode: 150
  head #0: 1024x768 @ 1024,0
  head #1: 1024x768 @ 0,0

You would need to find a Xinerama aware window manager which allows you
to control workspaces on each head.  I'm not aware of a way to configure
metacity to allow this.


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