Re: FVWM: Fvwm, the pager, and multiple screens (monitors)

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:34:52 +0200

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 11:55:01PM +0100, Athanasius wrote:
> Hi,
> I spent a few hours today getting my dual monitor setup under Linux
> (Debian Woody) and XFree86, with fvwm2.
>
> What I've managed at this stage is the two monitors being treated as
> seperate screens, running fvwm2 with thw -s switch so it only starts on
> the primary, then calling another fvwm2 with minimal (no Init stuff)
> from there. Oh and Xinerama is configured on too.
>
> The upshot of this is two monitors work seperately, I can drag windows
> between them *BUT* they are each using their own FvwmPager.

As far as I understand Xinarama and multi-head, the setup you
describe is not possible. Either you are running Xinareama and
*one* fvwm, or you have a multi-head setup and one fvwm for each
screen. With Xinerama you can move windows to all video screens,
with multi-head you can't.

Can you please post:

 - the relevant parts of you X config
 - the lines you use to start fvwm
 - all Xinerama and Desktop settings from your .fvwm2rc

I need this information tu understand what you are doing.
 
> I would
> greatly prefer if they were using the SAME FvwmPager, so that any
> monitor can be displaying an arbitrary virtual desktop from my 3x2 set,
> rather than any desktop from 2 completely different 3x2 sets.
>
> Is there any way to do this currently? If not consider it a feature
> request, even if it has to be with the limitation of not being able to
> display THE same virtual desktop on both at the same time. I really
> don't need that myself anywya, and I doubt anyone else would.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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