[openbox] dual-head

Benedict Brown bjbrown+openbox at CS.Princeton.EDU
Sat Dec 4 04:17:57 EST 2004


Things should always show up on the monitor in the DISPLAY environment 
variable in dual-head.  Then you launch them on the other one with either 
as "DISPLAY=... cmd" or with the -display argument.

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Mark Gjøl wrote:

> Dave Foster wrote:
>> My personal preference for running dual heads without xinerama is my use
>> of virtual desktops.  On my secondary monitor I keep my irc/im/music,
>> and I want to see those apps always, no matter whats on the virtual desk
>> on the main monitor.  I don't minimize anything, I just wheel around my
>> virtual desks.  That's pretty much the reason.  I'd like to be able to
>> drag windows between the heads, but I actually don't mind it at all.
>
> Mine is that I wish to be able to change desktop on each monitor 
> seperately... So I have mozilla on the left monitor and a couple of things on 
> the right monitor on several desktops...
>
> Another point is that it would be nice to be completely 100% certain where a 
> program starts. As it is now there's a high risk of programs starting on the 
> wrong monitor, which is pretty annoying if I'm watching a movie on that one.
>
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> // Mark Gjøl
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