Hi all, I am using two displays (with different resolutions), united by RandR. Sometimes I access my desktop via VNC: one big, full-screen VNC window covers both monitors. (I am not even running any window manager at the client side.) However, the information about the two physical monitors (and the resulting dead space) is not transmitted by VNC to the server, so the applications (including the window manager), which are running at the server, have no idea about the physical layout. Question: can Xmonad be configured to - handle the two displays as separate entities (despite being covered by a single VNC session), and - consider the dead space? If you, how do I do that? (Please note, I am not yet a Xmonad user, but I have a feeling that I might be, very soon.) Thank your for your help: Kristof Csillag
Excerpts from Csillag Kristof's message of Sat Sep 05 03:22:42 -0600 2009:
I am using two displays (with different resolutions), united by RandR.
Sometimes I access my desktop via VNC: one big, full-screen VNC window covers both monitors. (I am not even running any window manager at the client side.)
However, the information about the two physical monitors (and the resulting dead space) is not transmitted by VNC to the server, so the applications (including the window manager), which are running at the server, have no idea about the physical layout.
Question: can Xmonad be configured to - handle the two displays as separate entities (despite being covered by a single VNC session), and - consider the dead space?
Haven't tried it with VNC, but LayoutScreens xmonad-contrib module will probably handle this. It lets you toggle to and from different screen layouts with ... fixedLayout [<list of screen Rects>] ... and rescreen. http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmonad-contrib/0.8.1/doc/html/XM... http://tinyurl.com/m75z5e -- wmw
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