Re: [xmonad] Smarter multi-screen layouts (ab)using XRandR

Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 06.05.2010, 09:30 -0400 schrieb wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu:

Quoting Joachim Breitner :

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I would naively expect the last configuration to be [3][3] (focus on B) which is of course not possible. Or is it?

And it is not only about intuitiveness, but also very useful. When holding presentations, I tend to use a tool like pdf_presenter_console and therefore, my laptop screen (A) and the projector screen (B) display different workspaces. But when I then want to demonstrate something live, I?d like to have the same workspace on both.

This requires compositing, if I understand the state of the art correctly.

As long as you make the screen a complete clone, you can do it with xrandr – it supports clone mode as well as side-by-side. With compositing, things would be even nicer, because you could still have the panel on only one screen, or cope with different screen sizes (by rendering the program on to the size of one window, and scale for the other window). Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner e-Mail: mail@joachim-breitner.de Homepage: http://www.joachim-breitner.de ICQ#: 74513189 Jabber-ID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de