[xmonad] Smarter multi-screen layouts (ab)using XRandR

Joachim Breitner mail at joachim-breitner.de
Fri May 7 05:56:48 EDT 2010


Hi,

Am Freitag, den 07.05.2010, 08:04 +1000 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic:
> Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> writes:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 06.05.2010, 09:30 -0400 schrieb
> > wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu:
> >> This requires compositing, if I understand the state of the art correctly.
> >
> > As long as you make the screen a complete clone, you can do it with
> > xrandr – it supports clone mode as well as side-by-side.
> 
> Well, yes, except that with that _everything_ is cloned: xrandr doesn't
> let you go from two different workspaces to the same workspace without
> changing how you do your multi-head.

Yes, but that is what I want: The same workspace on both screen...

> Put it this way: does _any_ WM let you do what you want?

I don’t think so. But this is a pro-reason, isn’t it? :-)

Greetings,
Joachim

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