Xinerama + Virtual Desktops

[Olivier]

Scott;

Two quick small remarks before I get to bed :)

1) Think of Xinerama as a single huge screen, made of the sum of your
physical screens,
2) I don't see how your idea would fit in the fd.o standards.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 00:33, Scott Rubin wrote:
> OK,
> 
> Tell me if this idea is crazy, already implemented, or the greatest 
> thing ever because I'm not sure.
> 
> I already know that in CVS xinerama support is much improved, but as I 
> don't like to do anything that will mess up portage (gentoo user) I 
> don't use it yet.
> 
> Anyway, right now, in xfce 4.05 the way it works is this.  The virtual 
> desktop encompasses both monitors.  If I want something to be always on 
> the left monitor I have to make it sticky so it is on all desktops. 
> Also the pager displays the desktops as one very wide thing instead of 
> two separate squares, which makes more sense visually as I have two 
> monitors with different resolutions.  So I have been making heavy heavy 
> use of devilspie so that applications I want to appear on the smaller 
> monitor always do not appear in the pager or taskbar.
> 
> I just had a vision of how it could be perfect.  First, make virtual 
> desktops a single monitor in size.  So I can set the left screen to be 
> desktop 5 and the right screen to be desktop 1, or any other combination 
> I want.  I should also be able to put the same desktop on both screens. 
> Of course sometimes I want it to be the other way around, so maybe have 
> some desktops be one screen wide and some be dual screen? That needs 
> more thought.
> 
> The second though I had is this. If I can put any virtual desktop on any 
> screen at any time, what happens to things like pager, taskbar, panel, 
> etc.  What  about gaim and gkrellm/torsmo/gdesklets,etc that you want to 
> always see?  Add the ability to make windows stick not to all virtual 
> desktops, but to a specific monitor.  So for example if I set gaim to 
> stick to the right monitor then no matter which desktop I select to be 
> displayed on the right monitor gaim will be there.
> 
> This idea requires a lot more interface and functionality thought, but I 
> feel it would be really neat and makes a lot of sense.  How do you feel 
> about it? Does any of you other xinerama users feel this would be a good 
> addition? I think it just makes sense in a virtual desktop based window 
> manager.  You have many desktops, some are visible and some are not. 
> You have two monitors so you can view any two of these desktops in any 
> combination you want.  Maybe I'm nuts and this will actually be terrible 
> usability wise...
> 
> -Scott
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