On Thursday November 20 at 01:20pm David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org> wrote: > Johann Koenig <explosive@att.net> writes: > > > Second, my WM of choice, enlightenment, seems to handle the monitors > > well. I have two identical desktop systems, and I can move through > > them independently. Example: I have 4 virtual desktops on each > > monitor, and can scroll through them with alt+f[1-4] or the mouse > > scroll. Thats really cool. > > > > The problem is that I can't drag apps between the monitors. Left is > > Left and Right is Right. Where I start it is where it stays. Is this > > the window managers' doing, or X's? > > That's X's doing. If you start an xterm on each screen and run 'echo > $DISPLAY', you'll probably see that one is running on :0.0 and the > other on :0.1. You can't move things between X screens without some > help (look at the xmove and teleport packages). You might have luck > using the XINERAMA extension to create a single X screen tiled across > both physical monitors, though. Yeah, I tried xinerama, but switched back pretty quick. Not to say anything bad about xinerama, it worked exactly as advertised. But, I've gotten used to being able to keep my right monitor on one desktop while shuffling through the left. Thanks for the suggestion. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 37th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp
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