[plug] fluxbox and dual screens

Daniel Foote freefoote at gmail.com
Tue Jun 6 14:00:10 WST 2006


> > Currently, without Xinerama, you now have two heads: :0.0 and :0.1. If
> > you want to keep them seperate, you can start programs on one or the
> > other by setting the appropriate DISPLAY. But you can't then move
> > them.
> You might be able to - I was looking through my apt-cache for
> something else (an equivalent to screen) and stumbled upon xmove:
> Description: allows you to move programs between X Window System displays
>  xmove lets you change which display an X Window System program renders to
>  - this could be a different monitor or even a different machine.

Hey... that could be quite useful.... I had always thought that such a
tool would be quite useful, but never quite useful enough for me to
spend the time looking for such a thing.

Some usage instructions that could be useful are at:

http://www.dreness.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=76&

(They are written for MacOSX, but I can't see it not working on a Linux box.)

When I get home tonight I'll give it a shot. I wonder how well it
works with SSH X forwarding...?

Have fun...

Daniel Foote.



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