Re: [RP] Cameron's xinerama patch in CVS & Usability

[Shawn Betts]

Cameron Patrick <address@hidden> writes:

> twb wrote:
> 
> | :fdump and :fselect use the current screen; using a script and
> | :screens to work for all screens.  This way you can move framesets
> | between screens.
> 
> Yup.  Especially with 'scrselect' (was this patch merged too?) to get
> all the functionality that fdump'ing all monitors anyway.  I intend to
> write a kind-of-multi-desktop script along these lines at some point.

I don't think scrselect made it in. I applied your
cjp-xinerama-4-cumulative.patch patch.

> BTW on a non-dual-head-related note, one thing I wouldn't mind seeing
> in ratpoison would be the ability to force certain windows to go into
> certain frames.  Then I could have a script set up a GIMP frame set
> with one frame on the big monitor for the image and a few frames on
> the smaller monitor for the toolbar and other misc windows.  I'd have
> to think a bit more about the exact semantics of it though.

Do you mean something like a 'pull' command? ie ':pull 2' would pull
window 2 into the current frame. and ':pull 2 1' would pull window 2
into frame 1?

That should be easy to write.

-Shawn