Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 06.05.2010, 09:30 -0400 schrieb wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu:

Quoting Joachim Breitner :

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I would naively expect the last configuration to be [3][3] (focus on B) which is of course not possible. Or is it?

And it is not only about intuitiveness, but also very useful. When holding presentations, I tend to use a tool like pdf_presenter_console and therefore, my laptop screen (A) and the projector screen (B) display different workspaces. But when I then want to demonstrate something live, I?d like to have the same workspace on both.

This requires compositing, if I understand the state of the art correctly.

As long as you make the screen a complete clone, you can do it with xrandr – it supports clone mode as well as side-by-side. With compositing, things would be even nicer, because you could still have the panel on only one screen, or cope with different screen sizes (by rendering the program on to the size of one window, and scale for the other window). Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner e-Mail: mail@joachim-breitner.de Homepage: http://www.joachim-breitner.de ICQ#: 74513189 Jabber-ID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de

Hi, Am Freitag, den 07.05.2010, 08:04 +1000 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic:

Joachim Breitner writes:

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Am Donnerstag, den 06.05.2010, 09:30 -0400 schrieb wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu:

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This requires compositing, if I understand the state of the art correctly.

As long as you make the screen a complete clone, you can do it with xrandr – it supports clone mode as well as side-by-side.

Well, yes, except that with that _everything_ is cloned: xrandr doesn't let you go from two different workspaces to the same workspace without changing how you do your multi-head.

Yes, but that is what I want: The same workspace on both screen...

Put it this way: does _any_ WM let you do what you want?

I don’t think so. But this is a pro-reason, isn’t it? :-) Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail: mail@joachim-breitner.de | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org

Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 06.05.2010, 23:57 +1000 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic:

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And it is not only about intuitiveness, but also very useful. When holding presentations, I tend to use a tool like pdf_presenter_console and therefore, my laptop screen (A) and the projector screen (B) display different workspaces. But when I then want to demonstrate something live, I’d like to have the same workspace on both.

I have never heard of pdf_presenter_console before; I take it this is it? http://westhoffswelt.de/projects/pdf_presenter_console.html ?

Yes, that one. The feature is also provided by openoffice, in form of the Sun Presenter Console, but only for Impress presentations. Florian Westhoff reimplemented it for PDF presentations. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner e-Mail: mail@joachim-breitner.de Homepage: http://www.joachim-breitner.de ICQ#: 74513189 Jabber-ID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de