<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">On 18 December 2014 at 12:22, Petter Adsen <</span><a href="mailto:petter@synth.no" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">petter@synth.no</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">> wrote:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">> I recently bought a second monitor, and set it up with no problems.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">> However, when I switch workspace on one screen, the other screen also</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">> switches. Is it possible to switch workspace on only one screen at a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">> time, and still be able to drag windows from one screen to the other?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">> I've been googling and searching forums and mailing list archives, and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">> not found much, except suggestions to try xmonad. And I would, if I</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">> wanted a tiling wm.</span><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">If being able to drag windows across screens isn't absolutely necessary, setting up a separate X screen for each monitor does exactly what you want. While I'm not sure what your setup is, </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I use two Nvidia cards, each attached via displayport to a separate monitor. While most desktop functions are shared, each monitor has its own separate workspaces. The only limitation that really affected me was the lack of a shared clipboard, and using a program like CopyQ solved that nicely.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div>
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