Hi Folks, My name's Grant. I'm brand new to this list and fvwm in general. I'm pretty new to the open-source community too, in fact. I work on the Linux UI for VMware Workstation and worked on implementing multi-monitor fullscreen support. This lets you expose one or more monitor to your guest virtual machine, a feature people have been excited about.
Here's the thing: our implementation requires all guest displays to appear together in a single window that stretches over multiple monitors. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done with most window managers, including fvwm. We wound up devising all kinds of hacks to put our window where we want it, with varying success for each window manager. So my colleague has proposed a hint to be added to the wm-spec: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2007-March/msg00002.html and has submitted a patch for Metacity, demonstrating that the hint is sane: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414476 We're hoping the hint is accepted in some form soon so that we can start implementing it on a variety of window managers, including fvwm, and release a future version of Workstation that uses this hint instead of gross hacks. I'm starting implementations on a variety of popular window managers and expect only minor changes to things if the final accepted hint differs from David's current proposal. So, I've just gotten the main branch from CVS, built it, all that. I'm pretty much ready to start coding. Any tips? Any branch I should be making these changes on besides main? (I believe fvwm's latest "stable" branch doesn't support the single-monitor fullscreen hint, correct?) We'd like this support to come to the "masses" as quickly as possible. Thanks very much for any help! Grant