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proc

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From: Italy

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 71

Is E17 the only WM/DE with the *right* Xinerama support?

Hi everybody,

I'd like to ask if you know of any other WM/DE that is capable of managing different virtual desktops (aka workspaces, pagers, etc.) on different monitors like E17 does.

For those that didn't try E17 with Xinerama, E17 lets you have a pager on each monitor and when you change virtual desktop on a particular monitor the content of the other monitor(s) won't get affected.

Before trying E17 I was using Gnome running on two different displays i.e. without Xinerama, but I want to be able to move windows from a monitor to another (and keep the two monitor separated and not have them treated as one big monitor).

Hope this makes sense, and sorry for my bad English!

Thanks in advance, Proc.

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From: Castalia

Registered: 2007-02-02

Posts: 368

Re: Is E17 the only WM/DE with the *right* Xinerama support?

I know that dwm is optimized for dual-monitor usage, but i'm not sure if that's the thing you're looking for.

proc

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From: Italy

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 71

Re: Is E17 the only WM/DE with the *right* Xinerama support?

Thanks for your reply. I tried dwm and although it is interesting it's not what I was looking for. Anyway I solved my problems with enlightenment replacing metacity with e17 and using enlightenment pagers... now I need only live updates of the pager (as in e16) to have a really usable dual-monitor DE.

Zanton

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Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 80

Re: Is E17 the only WM/DE with the *right* Xinerama support?

I did it with xcfe4 too.

Evanlec

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From: NH, USA

Registered: 2007-12-16

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Re: Is E17 the only WM/DE with the *right* Xinerama support?

I know that dwm is optimized for dual-monitor usage, but i'm not sure if that's the thing you're looking for.

actually dwm is not optimized for dual monitor usage, and specifically states that it does not support xinerama

you may confused with another wm

right now im using XMonad because it supports xinerama quite well.

Though I would like to get Awesome working better, i'm having trouble working it on my xinerama setup. (using twinview)

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patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

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Re: Is E17 the only WM/DE with the *right* Xinerama support?

dwm is going to support xinerama in the upcoming 4.8 release

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proc

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From: Italy

Registered: 2006-11-27

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Re: Is E17 the only WM/DE with the *right* Xinerama support?

I did it with xcfe4 too.

wow.. I tried Xfce4 but I got only one big screen when using Xinerama. Could you please tell me how you did it?

Thanks in advance, Proc.