On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:33:01AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > The scenario in which I would like to use dual head is a work screen > and next to it a screen for GUI applications, like the browser, > jpilot, and a mail reader. Furthermore, I want multiple desktops. > Running X with Xinerama means that a desktop change affects both > screens, which is not what I want. Thus, I want to go without > Xinerama.
I use a configuration much like this for my work system. Two 19" monitors side-by-side configured in Dual Head with an almost fullscreen VMware session on the right hand monitor with a single desktop and currently 6 desktops on the left. I'm using Blackbox for my window manager, it handles both screens automatically with a single invocation. > So then I went back to WindowMaker and got it to run two separate > instances on the two screens. Cut'n'paste works, dragging windows > between the screen obviously doesn't, but that's fine by me. > However, I am still not 100% happy, mainly because of the focus > issue. I'll give you two examples, keep in mind that I run 'click' > focus mode, that is, I have to click a window to give it the focus. > I prefer this to sloppy focus where the window under the mouse > cursor is focused. I use sloppy focus, so I wouldn't know how well click to focus would or wouldn't work. > If I am working on screen 0 and would like to switch to a terminal > or browser window on screen 1, I have to click on the window title > bar -- clicking on the window does not transfer the focus. Within > a single screen, however, this works as expected. Just configured both heads here for click to focus and clicking anywhere within a window on either screen switches focus to it. > The second example is related to the previous one. I have Ctrl-Alt-T > mapped to give me a terminal window. However, when the focus resides > on screen 0 even though the mouse is on screen 1, pressing that > keycombo will pop up the terminal on screen 0. Clicking on the > background or application clip does not transfer the focus. Thus, in > order to open a window on screen 1, one needs an already opened > window to transfer the focus to screen 1 -- a bootstrap problem that > can only be overcome with the window maker application menu -- which > is painful. I only have bbkeys (a blackbox keygrabber) configured to run on the first head here. However, I do have a problem where if the focused window is on the second screen my keyboard shortcuts don't activate on the first screen. With sloppy focus if I move through an open application on screen 1 it switches focus and the key combos work. Likewise if I click on the root window of screen 1 the key combos work. > There are like 40 or more window managers in Debian, and I really > don't want to try one after the other. Thus, if you have already > made experiences with window managers and multi-head configurations > that don't use Xinerama, talk to me! I'm quite happy with Blackbox and Dual Head. I'd be happy to provide any help I can. -- Jamin W. Collins Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. --Aldous Huxley, "Proper Studies", 1927 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
