On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:33:13PM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > Hello :-) > > Some of you might have seen my discussion on the Xorg list about the > classic dual-screen mode effectively being phased out by Xorg (drivers > dropping what they call Zaphod mode), in favor of moving everybody to > xrandr for multiple displays.
Nope, but then again, I did read a really interesting discussion about the Great Klondike --- perhaps I will fire off an email to the LKML about it. > In case you don't know, this means there is only one $DISPLAY and a > window manager with virtual desktops will (assuming it even gets along > with randr in the first) place switch all display's desktop at the > same time. There is no more just switching your left screen and > leaving the right screen where it is. The Xorg discussion goes on > with my I don't like that at all and want to continue using classic > dual-screen. You can read the details here: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2010-February/thread.html > Start with > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2010-February/049154.html > But this has nothing to do with FVWM. All FVWM guarantees is that it works with how X (Xinerama in this case) provides its interface. If that changes... then it changes. > So, my question is: anybody here has any idea what would be involved > in doing this? Quite a bit of work. FVWM would have to determine and expose for itself what it considered a *screen* and how virtual desks relate to that. It doesn't do that at the moment, and can't say I can see it ever doing that -- what's the point? -- Thomas Adam -- "It was the cruelest game I've ever played and it's played inside my head." -- "Hush The Warmth", Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.
