On Sat, 2008/11/01 15:29:49 -0400, Gwern Branwen wrote:
Yes, I think this has been suggested before. IIRC, the reason that it was rejected from core was that it would confuse Xinerama users (who need to know which of the hypothetically-fullscreen'd monitors is the focused one). I don't think that this is a great reason - surely it could be reasonably easily modified to be a null-op in the case where multiple monitors are actually being used?
smartBorders generally is a no-op if there are multiple screens. I was rather pleased when I discovered that (I didn’t start using smartBorders when I first heard of it because I thought it wouldn’t work with multiple screens. I later decided to fix smartBorders, but when I looked at the source I saw it was already fixed!) I don’t use floating windows (such as full-screen floating Mplayer), though, so it might remove their borders even with multiple screens.