From what I'm reading....

Post #241,163 by Simon_Jester 1/12/06 1:27:36 PM 1/12/06 2:04:30 PM Reply	From what I'm reading.... you're looking at having 2 monitors, while using xwindows, and displaying one virtual desktop on one monitor and a different virtual desktop on a different monitor. I agree that it's an window's manager issue. (Currently most dual monitor setups under X use a single large buffer for display where 1/2 the buffer goes to one monitor and 1/2 the buffer goes to the other monitor.) However, given how XWindows works (in particular it's DISPLAY setting....it may be due-able.) Still researching. ----------------------------- There is an X2X program out there...don't think it's what your looking for though Mostly, from what I see, you're looking to run dual monitor with xinerama turned off. Then it appears to be just a question of configuring the windows manager to display the appropriate virtual window to the appropriate monitor (using :0.0 or :0.1 iirc). However, I don't see any windows managers that have been configured for that as yet. :-( (And I'm planning on getting a multiple-monitor system in the very near future....so this was of vast interest to me.) Edited by Simon_Jester Jan. 12, 2006, 02:04:30 PM EST Expand All History
Post #241,165 by ben_tilly 1/12/06 1:51:07 PM Reply	That part of it is very doable In my initial post I described what I know how to do. In particular it is possible to set things up so that you have 2 copies of X running, one for each monitor. Now each one can have independent sets of virtual desktops. I believe that some window managers have even figured out how to enable cut and paste between the copies of X, though I'm not entirely positive on that. If they haven't, though, the flexibility is more important to me than cut and paste. Worst comes to worse, I can save data to a file on one monitor, read it on the other. The gap between this and what I really want is that 2 copies of X ties the virtual desktop to the monitor, which means that I can only get some combinations of virtual desktops. Now 3 of my desktops are my email, my browser (which has request tickets), and one in which I'm trying to develop and run a long one-off report that occasionally needs nudges. While looking at the report I might need to be referring to an email or to the request ticket. While replying in email I might need to be looking at the report I'm developing or a request ticket. While entering stuff in the request ticket I might need to be looking at email or at the report. So I really might wind up working in any of the desktops and referring to stuff in either of the other two. So tying the virtual desktop to the monitor means deciding which combination I can't display. However, as my response to bepatient pointed out, getting what I want requires a ton of support from the window manager. And it doesn't look like any window managers supply that support. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #241,205 by ben_tilly 1/12/06 5:11:00 PM Reply	An alternate approach (new thread) Created as new thread #241204 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=241204\|An alternate approach] I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)

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