| 1 |
On 2016-09-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 2 |
> On 2016-09-23, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 3 |
> |
| 4 |
> [need to pick new desktop environment -- which could just be a window |
| 5 |
> manager with a couple extra bits] |
| 6 |
[...] |
| 7 |
> Windowmaker seems a bit too oriented towards "icons on the desktop" |
| 8 |
> which isn't how I want to work. |
| 9 |
[....] |
| 10 |
> LXDE looked good. [...] However, when I built lxde-meta and tried it |
| 11 |
> on a 3-screen machine, it fell over pretty badly. |
| 12 |
[...] |
| 13 |
> I liked openbox though, so if LXDE refuses to handle multiple screens |
| 14 |
> I may stick with openbox and try to find some other panel program |
| 15 |
> that does work with multiple screens. |
| 16 |
|
| 17 |
Openbox+tint2 looks promising. Tint2 is a lightweight panel app that |
| 18 |
doesn't have the "only one instance allowed" restriction like lxpanel |
| 19 |
has. You run a separate instance of tint2 per panel, and it doesn't |
| 20 |
care how many instances you run or how many different screens or |
| 21 |
XServers they're running on. For optimal attractiveness, you may have |
| 22 |
to hand-tweak the tint2 colors and fonts to match the openbox theme, |
| 23 |
but that's a small price to pay for something that actually works. |
| 24 |
|
| 25 |
I still have to figure out one last tweak to openbox's behavior. When |
| 26 |
you do ctrl-alt-right/left it switches virtual desktops on the screen |
| 27 |
that has input focus, and I want it to switch on the screen where the |
| 28 |
mouse pointer is. I know it's trivial, and all you have to do is |
| 29 |
click before hitting ctrl-alt-right/left. |
| 30 |
|
| 31 |
But I'm old; change is hard :) |
Archives