New XMonadContrib module: IndependentScreens
Forwarded from the offlist buffer: 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. ;-)
From: wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu
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.
Isn't this how workspaces have worked in xmonad for a long itme? Each screen is already a view onto an independent workspace from a shared list of workspaces -- I'm confused as to what you're trying to add. Does the feature hinge on "even if they have the same name"? The one xinerama / workspace feature I think would be nice (but probably quite difficult) is support for mirroring -- where a workspace being shown on one screen doesn't preclude it from being shown on another. To do it you'd probably have to special-case viewing the same workspace more than once using xrandr, and it would be weird. -- Fred
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
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