Where to start? Implementing independent workspace switching with Xinerama

[Olivier Fourdan]

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Hi,

Henk Boom wrote:
> I have rather limited knowledge of the way xinerama and multi-head
> displays work, but why is it important to use xinerama at all? Why not
> just have the two screens show any two out of a single set of
> workspaces? I remember hearing that moving windows between different
> screens was a problem with multi-head, but could that be done with WM
> support instead? AFAIK xinerama has the big disadvantage that you
> can't add and remove screens on the fly, which is very important for
> laptops. Just my $0.02.

That will not work, the standards sets the workspace per screen. you
cannot have different workspaces on a single screen.

But anyhow, that would not make much sense. If you want to
haveindependent screens, simply don't use Xinerama;

Cheers,
Olivier.
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