[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.
>
> --
> // Mark Gjøl
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