[xmonad] Selecting xinerama screen with mouse-follow

Ico xmonad at zevv.nl
Tue Jan 13 07:09:10 EST 2009


* On 2009-01-13 Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote  :

> Am Dienstag, den 13.01.2009, 09:14 +0100 schrieb Ico:
> 
> > Is there a way to select an empty screen by method of 'focus my mouse'
> > so new applications will open on the screen where the mouse is, even if
> > the screen is empty so the mouse will not focus any windows already
> > there ?
> 
> are you using the darcs version? sjanssen did some work on that last
> October. If not, please test these patches.
> 
> Back then, I was having a two screen xinerama setup, and I thought I had
> some more issues. If the darcs version does not work for you, you can
> try to apply these patches:
> http://darcswatch.nomeata.de/20081008162906-23c07-9a4be29844dc335d040f482e2041aa8b8a80ca66.dpatch
> (I???m not sure if they still apply cleanly)

Thanks for the info, I'll give this a try. A few months ago I switched
from darcs to the version provided by debian, but this funtionality
would be a good reason to switch back to the development version.

Thanks!

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