Re: Xinerama and workspaces

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster rasterman com>]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:38:57 +0000 James Birkett <james birkett co uk> babbled:

> I have just set up a second monitor on my system, and like the way
> Xinerama allows you to move windows between screens. On the other hand,
> it would be very nice to have workspaces treated separately on the two
> screens - for example, if I have a dvd playing on one monitor, I would
> like to be able to use the other monitor independently, in particular
> switching workspaces. Is there any way of doing this? 
> If not, would it be possible to make the pager Xinerama aware, so that
> it can put different workspaces on different monitors?
> 
> (Using X without Xinerama would work of course, but moving windows
> between screens then becomes impossible.)

this would be entirely the job of your window manager to do this... :) it is
possible... it's on my todo list for e17...

basically the wm would have to have a concept of treating different parts of the
same root window as if they were different virtual desktops. most wm's have no
clue about that :)

speaking of that. anyone have any suggestions for a gfx card that has dual DVI
out... AND can run on a machine with a power supply of 275w? (and is AGP and
isn't old as the hills - ie not an old quadro or such.) so i can get decent
accel and nice dual dvi out? :) (i want to actually be able to test xinerama as
such... :) )

> Thanks in advance,
> 
> James Birkett
> 
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