Different # of virtual workspaces on monitors

[Marc Schwartz]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 20:29 +0100, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 21:49 -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> > If there is only a single instance of xfwm4 running, it is therefore
> > controlling application windows and workspaces on both screens, is it
> > not?  If so, then is the functionality that I am asking about possible?
> 
> What you are asking is called "screen migration". For xfwm4 there would
> be little problem as it's like unmapping a window from a screen and
> mapping a new one on another screen, but no toolkit other than GTK 2.2
> and later would support it (the application keeps track on the display
> and screen internally, and many X objects are screen dependant)
> 
> And even so, there is no protocol to initiate a screen migration of an
> application from the Window Manager (yet). There are a group of people
> preparing a specification for that on freedesktop.org, but it's not
> ready.

Olivier,

Thanks for your follow up. My low level knowledge of X and GTK is
lacking, so my perspective may seem overly simplistic. As per Brian's
response last evening, it became evident that it was more involved than
I had anticipated.

As per your comments on freedesktop.org, perhaps this will come in time.
There are occasions when I find that this would be nice to have, but as
always, there are trade-offs. For the time being, I much prefer the
overall operational characteristics (and performance) of non-xinerama
mode.

Thanks again,

Marc