On Tue 03 Mar 2015 at 08:03:52 +0300, Pavel Kretov wrote: > Most non-tiling window managers (if not all of them) combine all available > monitors into single virtual screen space which gets switched as the whole > thing when user changes virtual desktop, exactly as the specification says. > But there exist at least two tiling managers, namely i3 and xmonad, which > employ the different concept: they allow user to setup own set of virtual > desktops for each of monitor. (Mac OS X has a similar feature too.)
ctwm has a similar but even different possibility. Say you have 9 workspaces (that maps to what the spec calls desktops). Then if you have multiple monitors, you can show workspace #x on monitor 1 and workspace #y on monitor 2. You can make any combination, but not show the same workspace twice (since windows have only a single parent). Also windows that show up in multiple workspaces are shown only once (for the same reason). This works best if both monitors are the same size, of course. This is also not very well matched by the spec. There are multiple root windows at the same time, for instance, and multiple current workspace numbers. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- 'this bath is too hot.'
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