Thanks for your comments! also sprach Brad Sawatzky <brad+debian@lamorak.phys.virginia.edu> [2004.02.02.1759 +0100]: > Perhaps the simplest solution is to use Xinerama and just set the > sticky bit on the apps you wish to be global (ie. those on your > "reference" monitor)? That will force them to stay put when you > change desktops, but you still have all of the advantages of > having a single logical screen through Xinerama. But that limits me to one desktop on the reference machine, when I'd really like three: browser, mail reader, jpilot. also sprach Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net> [2004.02.02.1826 +0100]: > > So then I went back to WindowMaker and got it to run two > > separate instances on the two screens. > > It really should have done that without any help from you. Are > you running multiple screens on one X server, or did you launch > another X server on the other head? The former, and WindowMaker does it without problems. > You really want to use one of the window managers that was > designed from the ground up to do this, and already deals with the > issues, rather than some mish-mash. That more or less means you'd > want to be using one of the older wm's, like blackbox, or fvwm, or > afterstep. I am trying fluxbox/blackbox right now, and fvwm(2) has come up many times, so that's next. > If EWMH compatability is important to you, I'd use fvwm. > Otherwise, I'd use blackbox. Actually, I'd use blackbox anyway... > blackbox CVS supports EWMH. ^_^ I don't eben know what that acronym stands for and foldoc doesn't either. also sprach Jamin W. Collins <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> [2004.02.03.0109 +0100]: > Just configured both heads here for click to focus and clicking > anywhere within a window on either screen switches focus to it. I wonder if this is a feature they forgot to swipe when they forked fluxbox, which I am now using. > I'm quite happy with Blackbox and Dual Head. I'd be happy to > provide any help I can. Thanks, Jamin. I might take you up on this. Gotte try fvwm2 one of these days... -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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