| 1 |
On 2022-11-21, Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com> wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Monday, 21 November 2022 18:12:41 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: |
| 3 |
>> |
| 4 |
>>> You're right, I thought you meant two different monitors in Xinerama |
| 5 |
>>> style. I didn't know anyone who still uses separate displays |
| 6 |
>>> (screens) these days. |
| 7 |
>> |
| 8 |
>> I found it very helpful when I dealing with interruptions (which is |
| 9 |
>> about 50% of a typical day). I could flip one of the screens to a new |
| 10 |
>> virtual desktop (while leaving my email and web browser as-is on the |
| 11 |
>> other screen), deal with the interruption, then flip that screen back |
| 12 |
>> to the desktop containing whatever I was origininally working on. |
| 13 |
>> |
| 14 |
>> My office setup had three screens, each with four virtual desktops. |
| 15 |
>> |
| 16 |
>> When using multiple screens, you develop the habit of using one screen |
| 17 |
>> for common, always-on stuff (e.g. email, web browser) and the other |
| 18 |
>> screen(s) for working on code (or whatever). |
| 19 |
> |
| 20 |
> I found Enlightenment to be most versatile in this respect. Unlike |
| 21 |
> say Plasma, which has two monitors locked on the same virtual |
| 22 |
> desktop and when you switch to another virtual desktop *both* |
| 23 |
> monitors flip over, |
| 24 |
|
| 25 |
That's how all of virtual-desktop window managers I've tried over the |
| 26 |
decades work. |
| 27 |
|
| 28 |
> in Enlightenment each monitor can switch to a different virtual |
| 29 |
> desktop independently. Like you, I keep always-on stuff on the left |
| 30 |
> monitor, while switching between different virtual desktops on the |
| 31 |
> right monitor. |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
|
| 34 |
>> There are two main drawbacks to the multiple-screen setup: |
| 35 |
>> |
| 36 |
>> * You can't drag a window from one screen to the other. With the |
| 37 |
>> monitor sizes that are common now, that's not as big an annoyance |
| 38 |
>> as it used to be. |
| 39 |
> |
| 40 |
> With Enlightenment you can move windows across monitors, |
| 41 |
> irrespective of the virtual desktop each monitor displays. |
| 42 |
|
| 43 |
|
| 44 |
|
| 45 |
That's Cool. I might have to give Enlightenment a try one of these |
| 46 |
days. |
| 47 |
|
| 48 |
How well does focus-follows-mouse work? With openbox there are a |
| 49 |
couple scenarios where you can get the mouse in a window without that |
| 50 |
window having focus until you move the mouse out of the window and |
| 51 |
then back in again. I trip over that once or twice a day: I start |
| 52 |
typing without noticing that the window where the mouse is does not |
| 53 |
have focus. Then I've got stop, find the window that does have focus, |
| 54 |
and figure out what damage that typing did. |
| 55 |
|
| 56 |
-- |
| 57 |
Grant |
Archives