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Balto

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Registered: 2014-11-22

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[SOLVED] Which window manager can be made NOT multi-head aware?

I'm trying to combine multiple physical screens into one logical screen, similar to AMD Eyefinity or NV TwinView, but in a way GPU-independent and hopefully more flexible.

I have already got the multiple screens connected and arranged the way I want via RandR. However, all the window managers or desktop environments I have used are multi-head aware and treat each viewport independently. There are different backgrounds, panels or widgets on each viewport. When a window is maximized/aligned, it stops at the boundary of the specific viewport it is on. I'm wondering if there is any actively developed/maintained VM/DE which can be configured to ignore viewport boundaries and simply treat the entire framebuffer as one single continuous screen. When I maximize a window or open a full screen app, it should occupy all the available screen space without worrying about how physical screens are arranged.

Last edited by Balto (2015-01-17 11:59:35)

drcouzelis

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Re: [SOLVED] Which window manager can be made NOT multi-head aware?

Seems possible with compiz: http://askubuntu.com/questions/73573/ho … o-monitors

It also seems like something not many people would want to do. First, you would need two monitors with the same vertical resolution for it to make sense. Second, you would need to be maximizing an application that you wouldn't mind being physically split down the center. Is that what you're trying to setup?

Balto

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Registered: 2014-11-22

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Re: [SOLVED] Which window manager can be made NOT multi-head aware?

Seems possible with compiz: http://askubuntu.com/questions/73573/ho … o-monitors

It also seems like something not many people would want to do. First, you would need two monitors with the same vertical resolution for it to make sense. Second, you would need to be maximizing an application that you wouldn't mind being physically split down the center. Is that what you're trying to setup?

Thanks. That's exactly what I was trying to achieve.

Compiz gets it done mostly. Panels and stuff are not under its control but my windows are going where I want them to go. And being able to define multiple outputs manually makes it really flexible.

Compiz appears to be a bit unstable though. Quite a few crashes today out of the box. Segfault and such.

I do want to use standard multi-head aware config most of the time. However being able to override that when I want to can be very useful for showing high res imagines or complex interfaces with too many panels. It might be useful for gaming as well.

Last edited by Balto (2015-01-16 14:41:40)