On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > a tiling WM is a WM that "tiles" the windows. That is, the windows > don't overlap, but rather occupy as much space as possible and are > laid out on the screen like tiles. wmii is one of the many tiling > WM's. It works by assigning the maximum amount of space to a window > and automatically sizing the window to that space. So with one window > open, it gets the full screen automatically. With two, they share the > screen more or less equally (that's configurable), splitting the > screen horizontally. You can add more windows as desired and the > others will all resize and adjust automatically to make the most of > available screen. You can shift windows into separate columns so that > one window gets full screen height on, say, the left 2/3's of the > screen while the others share the remaining 1/3 of the screen.
Oh, that is a nice feature that I do not know of. > > > For my setup: I have one flat monitor (main monitor) and another monitor > is > > TV, and I want to watch movies on TV and work on another monitor, and > that I > > do not want my mouse bothers the TV when viewing movies, that is why I > setup > > so that the mouse can not move from one monitor to another (the mouse is > > bounded as normal monitor). > > okay, that makes sense. > > > Another advantage, I "think" but have not tried > > (will try it soon), is that if you have two mice and two keyboards, you > can > > work on one monitor when your child is playing game on another monitor. > Two > > separately working desktop with one CPU is cool, right? > > Kent West does this and calls it dual-seat. search the archives for > his insights on doing this. Yes, dual-seat is what I need, and I find it very convenient and powerful. > > I am running xinerama and that combines my two screens into one large > > > one. The mouse flows effortlessly from one to the other. I find it > > > works very well with a tiling WM (wmii here) and just love it. What do > > > you find to be the advantages/disadvantages to have two truly separate > > > screens? Now you have a sense of why I need dual-seat. What about your setup of xinerama? What do you find it to be advantages to dual-screen? Actually I fried xinerama before, but the mouse problem bothered me a lot so that I switched to dual-screen. KC.
