Dual head, independently choose from same desktops?

[Ravi Kumar]

On 1/12/06, Ben Tilly <btilly at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/12/06, Jonathan Gardner <bohemian72 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 1/12/06, Ben Tilly <btilly at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > PS Why would I want such a bizarre thing?  Because I put different
> > > projects on different virtual desktops.  But often while working on
> > > one project I'll need to refer to stuff from another, and I can't
> > > predict what combination of things I'll want to look at.  Right now I
> > > handle this by switching desktops back and forth, but it would be much
> > > nicer to just have an arbitrary combination of them up to look at.
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> > At work, where I do have two monitors but with Windows, I do something
> > similar even though the two monitors are functioning as one really wide
> > monitor. I simply have one application or project up on the left and a
> > different one up on the right. Actually, it's not exactly like having one
> > wide monitor because if I maximize it will maximize to the monitor (however,
> > I can drag or stretch a window across both screens). I can minimize apps and
> > when I restore them they pop up in their respective monitors. Sounds a lot
> > like what you want and with the extra real estate, maybe you can do what you
> > want without worrying about having more than one virtual desktop up at a
> > time.
> > Of course, maybe what you want is entirely possible in which case go with
> > that.
>
> What you're suggesting is that having 2 monitors might give me enough
> real estate that I don't need virtual desktops.  Unfortunately given
> that I currently am actively using and switching between 6 virtual
> desktops, being able to display 2 at once is not sufficient.  And the
> pairs that I switch between are not in any simple relationship.
>
> For instance 4 of my desktops right now are my email, my browser,
> stuff related to a long-running batch job, and stuff I'm temporarily
> looking at (small bug fixes and the like).  While doing bug fixing I
> might want to be looking at an emailed problem description, a trouble
> ticket in my browser, or be monitoring the batch job.  Conversely
> while tinkering with the batch job I might want to be looking at the
> request ticket or emails related to that batch job, or I simply might
> want the temporary tinkering area open to more files than I can
> comfortably put on one screen.  And while reading email I might want
> to refer back and forth to stuff on my browser.
>
> So I really do wind up with periods where I'm rapidly switching
> between every possible combination of those 4 desktops.  (And
> therefore where it would be nice to have that combination visible.)
>
> Now I know that what I want is _theoretically_ possible.  However
> doing it would require an awful lot of cooperation from the window
> manager.  It sounds like xfce doesn't implement that, and it well may
> be that nobody does.
>
> Thanks for verifying that,
> Ben

Ben,
   Perhaps you should give "Kompose"  a try. It is an expose (Mac OSX)
 clone for linux  and is very good .

Regards
Ravi