Re: [RP] Ratpoison and Xinerama

[Benno]

On Tue Nov 25, 2003 at 16:17:13 +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I would really like to see decent Xinerama support in ratpoison.  At the
>moment I'm using an frestore command as described in the FAQ, which
>works, but isn't ideal.  The 'only' command should affect only the
>current monitor, and frames shouldn't be able to be removed/resized
>across monitor boundaries.  It also makes my .ratpoisonrc rather
>'unportable' to X sessions which aren't running at precisely the same
>resolutions as I am.  I'm thinking that hacking rp_screen structures to
>handle Xinerama screens would be the best way to achieve this.  This
>would cause problems with 'C-t f' no longer being able to select frames
>on another screen, though; likewise fdump/frestore, which is perhaps
>worse. :-/  Another option would be to do everything through a bunch of
>external scripts, which is IMNSHO yucky.  Any other Xinerama-using
>people here got an opinion on the matter?
>
>Also: I have a short Python script which will swap the contents of two
>frames.  I've attached it because I think it's useful and haven't seen
>anything similar mentioned by others :-)

Speaking of python. I have a script python interface for talking to 
eatpoison (whithout having the fork/exec overhead for each rp call.)

Attached in case other find interesting.

Benno

rat.py
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