[ctwm] Re: Different WorkSpaceManagers?

>> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:18:10 -0400, "Allen S. Rout" <asr@UFL.EDU> said:

> I'm just getting into the multiple-monitor business: I have been
> avoiding it for a Long Time because I have a sense that it's one of
> those irreversable changes: Once I've settled in, I'll be unable to
> go back.

> So I geared up my CTWM and was pleased to see that my 0.0 and 0.1 had
> independant worksapce managers; Woot!

> so I can page around my workspaces separately, but they are -named-
> the same. I find this icky.

> I mused about several different ways to deal with it; perhaps separate
> workspaces for separate subdisplays; perhaps all sharing the same list
> but different WorkSpaceManagers displaying different subsets of the
> list.

The correct answer, of course, is to use the correct term-of-art
"screen", for the distinction between display .1 and .0 ...

Once one knows this (I had to be noodling around in ctwm.c before I
realized it) the search for the correct config structure (a separate
ctwmrc.[screen-number]) was straightforward.

- Allen S. Rout
Received on Fri Aug 18 17:43:11 2006