Re: Multiple monitors, VirtualScreens and/or Xrandr

Le 03.04.2018 à 16:38, Stefan Monnier a écrit :
>>> Along the same lines, a window that's in screen 0 could only belong to
>>> workspaces of screen 0 and not to workspaces of other screens (so
>>> there's never a situation where you might need to display a given window
>>> at two different places at the same time).  Of course, displaying
>>> a given window at several places at the same time might be reasonably
>>> easy to do by "compositing" but I don't know if anyone is up to making
>>> ctwm do it.
>> It would complicates the code a level more.
> Could be.  I was thinking that maybe it can be made fairly simply: when
> you select workspace W in screen S, the only change is to skip (leave
> alone) all the windows that are not in screen S.
>
>> We can not dissociate screens as you describe without facing problems.
>> As if a window has its left part on first screen and its right one on
>> the second screen, what should happen ?
> We already have the notion of "this window is in screen S" for example
> when you do a fullzoom (or when you choose where to place the aux
> information box while moving/resizing), so we'd use the same notion.
Looking forward to using it

++

Max.