XMonad and Xfce panel workspace question
After some suffering, I managed to configure to use Xfce as a DE with xmonad as its WM. As stated in the wiki, the workspace panel plugin worked nice with xmonad workspaces, and it does... partially. I ran xmonad in two monitors, my main monitor (1920*1080), the laptop monitor (1366*768) and I have 7 workspaces. The problem is that Xfce thinks both monitors are ONE workspace, so each workspace "slot" is divided into two, the left half is the first monitor, and the right half the second monitor. The rest of the workspaces left side shows the apps opened in their respective WS, and the right side is empty. I'm sending a screenshot, maybe it can help to clear things a bit: http://imgur.com/Oogzq. In this case, I have three terminals opened in the first WS and only one in the sixth. As you can see, the panel shows the 6th WS empty (which is not). If I move between the workspaces in the main monitor, in the panel looks like only the right half is moving. I can see that xmonad and xfce understands workspaces differently, but it's a bit annoying (and confusing) to have those empty spaces. Honestly, I don't mind being able to make xfce "ignore" the second monitor and just show the first one. I imagine that something similar has to happen with kde or gnome, so I was wondering if there was a way to deal with this. Warm regards, -- Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini - @PaBLoX http://www.glatelier.org/ http://about.me/pablox/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/pablooda/ Linux User: #456971 - http://counter.li.org/
On 13 July 2012 14:49, Pablo Olmos de Aguilera C.
After some suffering, I managed to configure to use Xfce as a DE with xmonad as its WM. As stated in the wiki, the workspace panel plugin worked nice with xmonad workspaces, and it does... partially.
I ran xmonad in two monitors, my main monitor (1920*1080), the laptop monitor (1366*768) and I have 7 workspaces. The problem is that Xfce thinks both monitors are ONE workspace, so each workspace "slot" is divided into two, the left half is the first monitor, and the right half the second monitor. The rest of the workspaces left side shows the apps opened in their respective WS, and the right side is empty.
I'm sending a screenshot, maybe it can help to clear things a bit: http://imgur.com/Oogzq. In this case, I have three terminals opened in the first WS and only one in the sixth. As you can see, the panel shows the 6th WS empty (which is not). If I move between the workspaces in the main monitor, in the panel looks like only the right half is moving.
I can see that xmonad and xfce understands workspaces differently, but it's a bit annoying (and confusing) to have those empty spaces. Honestly, I don't mind being able to make xfce "ignore" the second monitor and just show the first one. I imagine that something similar has to happen with kde or gnome, so I was wondering if there was a way to deal with this.
My understanding is that this is a problem inherent with the protocol used to pass information to the pager (and happens with _any_ generic pager), in that it is assumed that in a multihead setup the entire display is one large workspace. As such, you just have to get used to it, unfortunately.
Warm regards, -- Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini - @PaBLoX http://www.glatelier.org/ http://about.me/pablox/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/pablooda/ Linux User: #456971 - http://counter.li.org/
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