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Need some advice:
Just got another monitor for my laptop (a samsung 23.5'' 2333sw), and I'm trying to tweak my monitor setup. What are the best panels/windowmanagers for dual monitors? Like right now I'm using compiz + tint2 and when I change workspaces, both monitors change workspaces. When I open a program, it appears in the taskbar on both monitors. I'd like them to be more independant (but still be able to share windows between them, so separate xorg files are out). Awesome kept things separate automatically, which brings me to my next question....
I don't want to use awesome (although it handles dual monitors exactly how I like, with no tweaking) because I'm having extended family stay over for a few weeks and I'd like to make my computer as user friendly as possible (part of me wants to do some linux converting). I'm talking totally mouse-based. OSX-esque dock, the works. Guys have any advice for the best window manager/apps to appeal to windows/mac users? Not that I want to make a windows clone. I just want something inviting, intuitive, with a low learning curve.
Part of me is thinking of maybe just tweaking awesome so it includes titlebars, is always floating, and has a dock. Since it handles dual monitors well right now, this might be the path of least resistance.
Thoughts?
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That's a very interesting topic. The program lxrandr is able to control the behaviour of plugged monitors but obviously it is only able to display the same content on both screens.
so are there some lightweight programs that can differ between the content like e.g. gnome is able?
Last edited by orschiro (2009-06-06 21:06:40)
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in tint2 you can do it with
panel_monitor = all
taskbar_mode = single_monitor
work well with openbox, but don't know under compiz.
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Cool, should have guessed that tintrc would have it. Any way to get separate workspaces per monitor?
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not yet,
for now you have 1 taskbar on each monitor (like gnome).
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done in svn ... r104
panel_monitor = all
taskbar_mode = multi_desktop
will show separate workspace per monitor.
not sure it's really useable ? give feedback please.
Last edited by thil77 (2009-06-08 16:56:53)
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