Re: FVWM: xinerama, but disjoint virtual desktops :)

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:37:44 +0200

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 03:16:51PM -0400, Nicholas Paul Johnson wrote:
> Now, I've reached a hurdle, which is xinerama. I've successfully set up
> xfree86 to use two monitors (of different resolutions and bit-depths), and
> I'm allowing fvwm to do its default behaviour, i.e. separate instances of
> fvwm on each.
>
> But now, except that the mouse can transcend physical monitor boundaries
> and that there is one clipboard for all monitors, windows are stuck on
> whichever monitor they start on, and I cannot alt-tab between monitors.
>
> I would like there to be one instance of fvwm for both physical monitors,
> such that I can drag windows between monitors. However, I would like the
> two monitors to page separately.

Actually, you are *not* running Xinerama. The whole point of
Xinerama is to treat all video screens as a single big screen.
Applications do not even notice different screens. Multiple fvwms
can not run on a single Xinerama root window, so you must have a
conventional multi-head X setup.

You have to check your X setup and change it so that is uses
Xinerama.

> In other words, I would like to allow the situation in which my first
> monitor is on virtual desktop x, while the my second monitor is on virtual
> desktop y. I would, of course, also like to allow the situation in which
> my first monitor is on virtual desktop x, and my second monitor is on
> virtual desktop x (while the two monitors still show a disjoint part of
> virtual desktop x).
>
> Is this possible? If so how? Multiple copies of fvwmpager?

Ciao

Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Wed Apr 14 2004 - 05:40:07 BST

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