Re: FVWM: desktop per monitor
On 19 May 2012 22:28, elliot s elliot...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to have one desktop per monitor (ie an independent pager per monitor) with the ability to move or extend windows across the monitors. Basically, a double wide page, where each pager controls the windows with their (0,0) on that page half. Having the page button show the icon of the last focused window would be nice, if possible. Not possible without Xinerama and even then, you're encroaching on per-desktop support which isn't possible yet. I assume the pagers could be faked by fvwmbuttons and scripting. Has anyone already done that? The only thing you can do is use FvwmEvent to hold different pagers for each *desk* -- and make them stickyacrosspages for that desk, killing the other pagers as you move between desks. I don't know if this is what you're asking or not. But likely what you're asking isn't possible yet, and no amount of scripting is going to help you. -- Thomas Adam
Re: FVWM: desktop per monitor
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 03:43:08PM -0700, elliot s wrote: One screen the width of two monitors. The windows that are soley on the right hand monitor should page independently of the windows that on the left monitor or cross monitors. This is called XRndR. FVWM doesn't support this yet. What you want to do is isn't possible at this time [1]. -- Thomas Adam [1] No amount of scripting will help you here. Trust me. And should you come across something called FvwmDX, that won't help you either. -- Deep in my heart I wish I was wrong. But deep in my heart I know I am not. -- Morrissey (Girl Least Likely To -- off of Viva Hate.)
Re: FVWM: desktop per monitor
elliot s elliot...@gmail.com writes: On 5/19/12, Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org wrote: On 19 May 2012 22:28, elliot s elliot...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to have one desktop per monitor (ie an independent pager per monitor) with the ability to move or extend windows across the monitors. Basically, a double wide page, where each pager controls the windows with their (0,0) on that page half. Having the page button show the icon of the last focused window would be nice, if possible. Not possible without Xinerama and even then, you're encroaching on per-desktop support which isn't possible yet. I assume the pagers could be faked by fvwmbuttons and scripting. Has anyone already done that? The only thing you can do is use FvwmEvent to hold different pagers for each *desk* -- and make them stickyacrosspages for that desk, killing the other pagers as you move between desks. I don't know if this is what you're asking or not. But likely what you're asking isn't possible yet, and no amount of scripting is going to help you. -- Thomas Adam I'm figuring on having a backing desktop that holds the windows that live soley on the right hand side of the page, and a variable holding the value of the current right hand page. When i press a page fvwmbutton, it moves all of the current right hand windows to the backing desk, page variable and moves to current desk the windows of the new page from the backing desk. Pressing the real pager operating the left hand page moves all of the right hand current windows to the current left hand page. I dont want to use sticky style so as not to lose which right hand windows are truly sticky. Sorry, I've never used Fvwm's Xinerama support but it sounds to me like it might help do some of the things you want. http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/manpages/stable/fvwm2.php (search for xinerama) Have you tried it? -- Dan Espen
Re: FVWM: desktop per monitor
On 5/19/12, Dan Espen des...@verizon.net wrote: elliot s elliot...@gmail.com writes: On 5/19/12, Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org wrote: On 19 May 2012 22:28, elliot s elliot...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to have one desktop per monitor (ie an independent pager per monitor) with the ability to move or extend windows across the monitors. Basically, a double wide page, where each pager controls the windows with their (0,0) on that page half. Having the page button show the icon of the last focused window would be nice, if possible. Not possible without Xinerama and even then, you're encroaching on per-desktop support which isn't possible yet. I assume the pagers could be faked by fvwmbuttons and scripting. Has anyone already done that? The only thing you can do is use FvwmEvent to hold different pagers for each *desk* -- and make them stickyacrosspages for that desk, killing the other pagers as you move between desks. I don't know if this is what you're asking or not. But likely what you're asking isn't possible yet, and no amount of scripting is going to help you. -- Thomas Adam I'm figuring on having a backing desktop that holds the windows that live soley on the right hand side of the page, and a variable holding the value of the current right hand page. When i press a page fvwmbutton, it moves all of the current right hand windows to the backing desk, page variable and moves to current desk the windows of the new page from the backing desk. Pressing the real pager operating the left hand page moves all of the right hand current windows to the current left hand page. I dont want to use sticky style so as not to lose which right hand windows are truly sticky. Sorry, I've never used Fvwm's Xinerama support but it sounds to me like it might help do some of the things you want. http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/manpages/stable/fvwm2.php (search for xinerama) Have you tried it? -- Dan Espen I'm actually vnc'ing to fvwm, so theres only one server screen. I started working on my plan. I got the left and right halves of the page to switch independently...the left side using the fvwmpager and the right side using fvwmbuttons to swap its windows with backing desks. Unfortunately, the taskbar (fvwmbuttons/fvwmiconman) is combined for the two sides. I can't create 2 taskbars and tell them to use [w.x] to (dont)show.
