[xmonad] New XMonadContrib module: IndependentScreens

Fred Blasdel blasdelf at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 18:41:24 EST 2009


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
<allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> Most window managers assume that if you're using Xinerama, that's what you
> want --- because that's what Xinerama *does*.  If you want them separate,
> disable Xinerama.

But without Xinerama don't you lose a ton of basic functionality, like
the ability to migrate windows between screens? Daniel Wagner's module
could deal with that constraint, but xmonad's "shared pool of
workspaces" idiom sure as hell couldn't.

 -- Fred


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