Re: Changing workspaces parallel on two screens

Hi Fernando

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Fernando M. Maresca <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:11:52AM -0500, Jj wrote:
>> I'm looking for the same, I've tried with several X utilities,
>> pretending to focus any window on the other display, with no luck.
>>
>> I'd like to hear if anyone came up with a work around, AFAIK there's no
>> key command for this when working with separate displays.
>
>
> I'm using a script to change workspaces in rows:
>    ws1  ws2  ws3  ws4...
>    ws11 ws12 ws13 ws14...
> I've got the script somewhere, don't remember, and modified it a little
> to do several this.

Thanks for he reply, but this is not what I am looking for - I am
looking for a way to switching, simultaneously on two displays, to the
next / previous workspace. I have implemented the
matrix-like-workspace switching myself and I like it.

>
> Search for next_window.pl or mail me. With some hacking around, it may
> be modified to do the trick.
>
> It uses wmctrl to do the work, so it's slower than the built-in change
> desktop. wmctrl will work as far as each ws have a unique identifier,
> which I think it's always the case.

wmctrl does only act on the actual display and has, as far as I could
find, no option of setting the display.


>
> Regards,
> Fernando
>
>
>>
>> Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I would like to be able to change the workspaces on two displays (:0.0
>> > and :0.1) simultaneously (via keys or mouse). Is this possible, and if
>> > yes, what do I have to add into the keys file? I could not find
>> > anything on that.
>> >
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