Re: dual screen configuration

Simon Bowden <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fluxbox.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Fernando M. Maresca <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm using fb for years now. Recently I've set up a new config with
>> several monitors.
>> I cannot find a way to configure fb to not use the three screens as a
>> big workspace, I want to use each screen as a separate desktop/workspace
>> on its own (by the way, I don't want to loose the ability to drag
>> windows across the screens).
>>
>
> That sounds interesting - how did you do that?
>

Xinerama (it puts several screens into one big screen).


>
>> I manage to configure most of the options relevant to my setup but one:
>> I want to switch workspaces only on the screen currently under focus,
>> not on all screens at once.
>>
>
> As far as I am aware, that is only possible when using different x-server
> (one for each monitor), and this will not allow you to drag windows from one
> to the other. I think you have to choose. If not, please let me know.
>

This is correct. Fluxbox only supports a workspace per "screen" in X, and X
doesn't support moving windows across screens. To do what you're asking,
we'd need to support chopping up a screen into multiple workspace stacks
[using xinerama hints], which is relatively complex.


> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
>>
>> Any suggestions or help? Example config file maybe?
>>
>> Thanks a lot, I want to return to fb.
>>
>>
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