On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:27 PM, y i y u s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well, I agree that the current Xinerama support is also not the > > way to go. First of all it is far to complex in the code for > > the benefit it implements. And around 90% of all dwm users have > > no Xinerama or Multihead support in my eyes. > > > > So I believe a real invention will be a tile() with Xinerama > > support instead and a status bar which can be positioned more > > flexible (just using a certain screen only to save screen real > > estate). > > > > As one of the users with just one monitor, I'm very happy with this > decision. Anyway, I will keep thinking about a good xinerama > implementation. > But what I would really like is a pre-release of st, what's the new > estimated time? I think we can forget about mid February... and a new > dwm would be great too, with or without xinerama. Any idea about when > all this will be available? (take your time, I'm just asking, you > know) >
I too like the idea of abstracting the Xinerama code away from the main dwm codebase. Given the debate on design choices, I am sure people will like to keep different Xinerama layouts. It will be a good idea to give all the ideas time to evolve and incorporate the essential features into dwm core. The bar is tricky... I don't use dual monitors but I know that I will not like looking at the "main" monitor for status information while I am working on the second (or nth) monitor. If I were to take a shot, I would replicate the status bar on each monitor with subtle differences in the content (say, for partition sets, I would highlight all the tags for that monitor). If I wanted real-estate I would use shortcuts to turn off bar display all together from all screens. However, this is just my choice... the point I am trying to make is that there should be an easy way to hack similar features in Xinerama setups with dwm. So, I would recommend abstracting drawbar in layouts[]. Also, I too am very interested in st. I tried fetching it from http://www.suckless.org/cgi-bin/hg.rc/st but I got a 404-Not found :( _r
