Re: dual screen configuration

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:59:01PM +0100, Simon Bowden wrote:
> manual / more magical now). It looks like RandR1.2 has changed things somewhat.

Yes, and I actually don't know what the differences really are. It
seems to me that at some point randr supported "split by
head/screen/monitor" workspaces, but now it works more like xinerama. 

I never needed xinerama nor randr, and sometime ago all my Debian boxes
went from manually maintained xorg.conf to automagic configuration and I
don't tweak a bit except for cases like this one. Even my laptops are
autoconfigured.


> Here's a note that suggests it can't be done, which would add some motivation
> to implementing it in fluxbox itself :-)

It can be done, no doubt. I'm not sufficiently savvy to judge the
implementation difficulty, I'm not even familiar with fb code.

> http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12

I came across this same doc and tired of trying different approaches
went with awesome some days ago.

However I still think that fluxbox is a better wm, and I really *want*
to run fb.

And it would be interesting to support such a functionality in fluxbox
because:
- I've found VERY useful the awesome approach to split-head workspaces,
  even way more flexible than a extended/expanded ws over several heads,
  and it's possible to set the wm either way (I think).
- If the cited document is right, there are only three wm supporting this
  feature right now.

I'm offer my help to anything the developers want for me to do to
implement this in fb.

Best regards, 

-- 
Fernando M. Maresca
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
Cel: 221 15 545 8196
Tel: 221 450 5378

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances
and start using them to simplify application deployment and
accelerate your shift to cloud computing.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev

_______________________________________________
Fluxbox-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fluxbox-users

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAkyieFsACgkQCtDmpVXdEMYKXwCeOsN1I9E6PCumk1cpebPViqmU
68kAn2NTK3PPwkYd7C8+jQMRx9yA0iim
=oMVU
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----