Multiple monitors of different shapes and sizes?
How (if at all) does xmonad cope with being run on a system with two monitors of different resolutions? The FAQ entry about multiple monitors says, if I've understood right, that you get one workspace on each monitor; so is everything in a workspace liable to get resized if it's switched from one monitor to the other, and if so how painful is that in practice? (I ask because I'm a happy but ignorant xmonad user, and am wondering about adding a second monitor to my machine, and can get one of a different resolution from my existing one much cheaper than one of the exact same resolution.) Thanks in advance for any enlightening advice. -- Gareth McCaughan
Quoting Gareth McCaughan
How (if at all) does xmonad cope with being run on a system with two monitors of different resolutions? The FAQ entry about multiple monitors says, if I've understood right, that you get one workspace on each monitor; so is everything in a workspace liable to get resized if it's switched from one monitor to the other, and if so how painful is that in practice?
Yes, exactly. And I don't find it painful at all. In fact, I find that in my typical use, windows never switch from one screen to the other; I have distinct uses for each monitor. YMMV, of course. Cheers, ~d
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 02:07:41AM +0100, Gareth McCaughan wrote:
How (if at all) does xmonad cope with being run on a system with two monitors of different resolutions? The FAQ entry about multiple monitors says, if I've understood right, that you get one workspace on each monitor; so is everything in a workspace liable to get resized if it's switched from one monitor to the other, and if so how painful is that in practice?
I'm using two monitors with different resolutions(1280x800 and 1280x1024) and everything works fine. The resizing is not noticable, so it is not painful at all.
I wrote:
How (if at all) does xmonad cope with being run on a system with two monitors of different resolutions? ... Thanks in advance for any enlightening advice.
And thanks in retrospect to the two Daniels who provided some; it sounds like the answer is that (1) one can often work in such a way that workspaces seldom have to change size, and (2) it's not troublesome when they do anyway. Splendid! -- g
yup, i'll add that i too have xmonad on multiple screens at different sizes
and resolutions and it works a charm.
15" 1280x1024, 19" 1600x1200, 15" 1024x768.
sure if i switched a screen full of carefully sized windows/tiles containing
statically layed-out/sized applications from one monitor to the other, the
xmonad tiles will resize to proportions of that new monitor and resolution,
but this rarely proves problematic in workflow terms. there's nearly always
many swift ways to reposition windows optimally, with xmonad.
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I wrote:
How (if at all) does xmonad cope with being run on a system with two monitors of different resolutions? ... Thanks in advance for any enlightening advice.
And thanks in retrospect to the two Daniels who provided some; it sounds like the answer is that (1) one can often work in such a way that workspaces seldom have to change size, and (2) it's not troublesome when they do anyway. Splendid!
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