Thomas Adam wrote on Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:11:43PM +0000: > 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.
Right, there are two issues. > > 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? If Xorg removes classic dual-head support then the party of having a movie on the right screen and switchable desktop on the left is over, as is the party of having a bunch of monitoring on the right screen and switching development desktops on the left. Unless this feature comes along. I'm trying to get a feel here about how much effort either side would have to make to keep things going. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <craca...@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/
