On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Eyal Erez wrote:

I'm thinking of buying one of these new ultra wide monitors http://www.lg.com/us/ultrawide-monitors that are 21:9. At this width, it doesn't really make sense for a single workspace to occupy the entire screen. I was wondering if there was a way to assign more than one workspace to a single monitor? Extra points for being able to add or remove workspaces at will. The goal is to have 2-3 workspaces on a single monitor side by side.

First off, make sure the X server supports it. Many of the new ultrawide screens use multiple video connections and current xorg treats them as different monitors, often with unfortunate results because it's not as straightforward as putting half of the screen on one and half on the other. Last I heard, they were still arguing over how to change xrandr and the low level xinerama stuff to handle it properly, and what level of application level (this includes xmonad) changes might be required to support them. Given that, XMonad.Layout.LayoutScreens can be used to split screens into chunks which xmonad will see as separate xrandr screens. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net