On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:43:54PM +0000, David Tweed wrote: > Anyway, that's _my_ view on things but the meta-point was that > if you're thinking about multi-head as someone who doesn't use > it, I do think it'd be useful to get > feedback from others who do about any human-issues that arise, > because they aren't obvious.
Exactly. However I don't want to change dwm too much, because there is no need for me todo so. But I currently work on the described extension of dotile() for XrandR setups (which I'll own very soon) and with a neat side-effect for real dual-head setups (no Xinerama - which I could use at my job in the future). The new dotile() allows 3 stack positions, however, in effect it will only support two when compiled - this is because you mentioned the area in the middle of the two screens important (that's usually the area you concentrate on most of the time). Thus I got the idea to toggle the stack position between bottom and wether left or right. This results in a dual-head setup in two dwm instances, a dwm.left and a dwm.right: scr 0 scr 1 SSMMMMM MMMMMSS SSMMMMM MMMMMSS SSMMMMM MMMMMSS This only works without Xinerama, but it is actually < 5 lines of code to support such change. It supports me to have two master columns and two stacks. I don't think I will ever need more. > |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? > > As mentioned above, I've got a mix of source code windows > where "tall and relatively narrow" is desired and image/graph > windows where you want "wider than tall" so being able to > put them into a "slave" column makes sense. So I didn't try a > "make them all the same shape"-type grid layout. The most > awkward thing Icoulde see is that X doesn't (AFAIK) provide any > way for an application to specify that it has a desired > _aspect ratio_, so I started to imagine all sorts of hacks in a WM > for figuring out which clients wanted exactly the aspect > ratio implied by their initial geometry and which were truly > resizable. And then I saw the chasm of hard-to-debug complexity opening > up in front of me so I abandoned that idea. Yes, I can imagine. But I thought more into a different direction when mentioning grid layout, I only refer to grid layout for the stack. Assumed you have 3 heads one could split the stack area into two areas: SSSS MMMM SSSS SSSS MMMM SSSS and the windows in the stack areas are organized in grid layout, and the cycle is switching in modulo 2 steps between the stack areas. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361
