Re: Dual taskbars on dual monitors?

Hi there,

> I am wondering if it's possible to have two taskbars, when using a
> dual monitor setup...
> 
> So all the windows on the left screen would minimize to a taskbar on
> the left screen and all the windows on the right screen would
> minimize to the taskbar on the right.
> 
> Or to have one taskbar over both the screens, when the windows would
> just be organized to the left and right would work too....
> 
> 
> If the fluxbox taskbar doesn't support this, a third party taskbar
> would also be ok.

Hopefully there's a ready-to-go solution for you (I can't help you
with that).

But I can suggest a custom script using wmctrl may achieve what you
want.

With wmctrl you can get:
- list of windows, workspace, xy pos and width,height.

You can then iterate though the list of windows, finding those that
are on the current workspace, in the current screen (based on the
workspace dimensions, and x,y pos of each window).  Then you can use
wmctrl to set their property to hidden.

  wmctrl -b toggle,hidden -i -r 0x<WINID>

This won't give you taskbar per monitor, but it might get you the
desired behaviour.

It sounds a bit hacky, but I've implemented a number of useful
functions using wmctrl to perform complex window management actions
and then bind them to keys.. e.g. the 'ArrangeWindows' function in
fluxbox will put 2 windows horizontally rather than vertical.  I've
written a simple script to set the window size and x,y so that 2
windows are split vertically in the available space.

I've done a lame implementation of Compiz & OSX's Expose feature that
allows you to 'zoom' out, choose a window, restore dimensions of all
windows and bring to front/set focus to the chosen window.  It's lame
because it's not quite finished, and it doesn't have any smoothness to
window size changes :)

Anyway, good luck with your ideas and let me know if you implement
something like the above.

Regards,

Chris Bennett
cgb

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