On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:12:49PM +0000, David Tweed wrote: > In my experience, dual-head doesn't combine flawlessly > with the "zoomed & stack" approach because of human > issues. Firstly, (I'd imagine that like me) most people with multihead > setups have them to display more things, rather than the > same numbers of things bigger. Certainly I tend to find myself using > two/three "full length" columns and maybe just one "slave" column > quite a lot. Secondly, if you put two screens > with the join directly in front of you you really want to be > able to put the stuff you're primarily working on near the centre rather > than always off on the far left. Thirdly, even if you have one > "zoomed-ish" client it's still useful to be able to rearrange > the order of "slave" clients, eg, so you can put two things > you want to compare by flicking your gaze between them > close together. Lastly, again with this extra space you might want > to use a mix of "naturally tall clients" (eg, text windows) and > "naturally wide clients" (eg, time series graphs) on one view. > > I've tried to partly address these issues in my large numbers > of clients patch (such as in the still flakey "move client to > position x in displayed clients" functionality), but I'm not > particularly satisfied with the result; the patch is a hack to make > things more usable for me without completely rethinking > the layout, its code and implications from scratch. That'd be > very interesting to do, but I myself don't have time at > moment. > > Note that this is just pointing out that with multihead the > "human issues" are at least as important as extending > the single-head paradigm in a logical and consistent way.
Well, I think we have very different working environments. I prefer to have 5 clients at maximum in my view, otherwise I cannot concentrate on what's going on anymore. Sometimes I throw a glance on what's going on in a different view through toggling a tag, but that's the only scenario when I have more clients than 5 around. That's maybe why I still stick with a single-head setup (and I only consider switching to a 21" display with 1960x1200 pixels instead using 2 screens in the future - those widescreen displays are quite cheap already). In a setup with many windows opened, I imagine you need a totally different approach, but I doubt this scales well with the design decisions in dwm, out of curiosity, did you tried gridlayout? Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361
