Don Stewart wrote:
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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:06:20 -0500 From: wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu Subject: New XMonadContrib module: IndependentScreens
Hey all,
I've written a short contrib module to scratch an itch I've had even since jcreigh made the first Xinerama support. I like dwm's module, where workspaces on different screens are conceptually distinct, even if they have the same name. Now XMonad.Layout.IndependentScreens makes that possible. Many thanks to Brent Yorgey, who sat next to me and helped me get it into a releasable state. =) (There's no patch attached; Brent applied it for me.)
~d
P.S. I'm not actually on this list, so be sure any complaints have daniel@wagner-home.com somewhere in the to: line. ;-)
If I understand correctly this is very similar to one of the alternative modes offered by mine and Wirt Wolff's ScreenWorkspaces module. It is partially completed, and intended to offer three different alternative modes: * Independent workspace lists for each screen, even when they have the same name. Pressing mod+1 on screen 1 is different from on screen 2, they are different workspaces. * Subsets of the single workspace list "bound" to each screen, so that whenever one of those workspaces is viewed with mod+N, it always appears on the workspace to which it is bound. * Paired workspaces, where you pretend you have one shared workspace list, but each is actually a pair of workspaces, one per screen, and they switch together when you press mod+N. Note that though I say "both" and "pair" these should work for arbitrary numbers of monitors. The precise state of the module you'd have to ask Wirt for; I don't have a dual-head setup handy to test it so he's been working on it. I'm pretty sure the part duplicating this module is fully working; we were even talking about pushing just that part the other day. They should definitely be merged if they do in fact overlap. Braden Shepherdson shepheb