Re: struts, workareas and xinerama

Tomáš Janoušek <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:11:18 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.wm-spec
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 06:39:57PM -0500, Dana Jansens wrote:
> 2009/11/25 Tomáš Janoušek <[email protected]>:
> > This looks reasonable, the only problem I can think of is this setup:
> >
> >  11112222
> >  11112222
> >  11112222 <-- taskbar spanning screens 1 and 2
> >  33334444
> >  33334444
> >  33334444
> >
> > It's something that can be done for struts at the top and bottom of the root
> > window using monitor = 0xFFFFFFFF, so we might want to support it for inner
> > edges as well. I'm not sure if anyone actually wants to use something like
> > that. I'm fine with that not being addressed, personally.
> 
> It could be done by using two windows, one appearing (and setting a
> strut) on each monitor.  I'm not sure that is a reasonable thing to
> expect though.

I didn't realize that, now it makes sense :-). I have no further comments and
will be happy to implement that into xmonad and xmobar, as soon as it's
accepted in wm-spec.

Thanks,
-- 
Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/