David Roundy
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:37:34PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
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Maybe there's a place for a per-screen decoration layer, always visible, in which I can stick clocks, status bars, GNOME panels, etc.? Hmm, maybe just things that just display information (rather than interact)? (And then maybe I could use xcompmgr or something to make them translucent?)
Let's keep the number of layers down, and just allow windows to be present in multiple workspaces.
Ah, but that's tricky for xinerama, as I understand it. Anyway, I was just suggesting one new layer per screen, so that doesn't feel huge. Admittedly, presumably it's conceptually a new kind of layer, which is bad. And maybe it's not worth it. My hunch is the right way to do this is to have some windows always present on a screen. I'm thinking of that in terms of something like the new floating layers, but maybe there's a cleaner way to do it. (I should confess to being attracted by the tagging approach of wmii, dwm. That would presumably be a good way to allow windows to be in multiple workspaces. However, I'm not sure whether that's the best way. It feels like it would be a radical change for xmonad.) [...]