Re: Dual taskbars on dual monitors?

I get that "for free" running dual screen without xinerama. I run two X 
sessions.

What I can't do is drag windows across screens, but I get two taskbars 
and independent workspace switching between screens.

It actually works better for me this way.

On 04/21/2010 11:03 PM, Chris Bennett wrote:
> 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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