Hi All,
I am searching for a way in X11 to "partition" or "divide" the screen. For example the physical size of the screen may be 1920x1080 but what if I want 3 sections like
A B C
where A is treated as a screen or division by itself, then B and C the same way. Some subset of the screen. So the application running in space A does not affect the application B or C and vice versa.
Does something like that exist of X11? All this is on the same physical screen. Just dividing it up.
Thanks
Jerry
On 9/6/2013 12:11 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:
So the application running in space A does not affect the application B or C and vice versa.
what exactly do you mean by, 'does not affect' ?
normally 'windows' provide sufficient isolation... but if the processes are touching each others files, then all bets are off, regardless of whats going on, unless you're running them in seperate VMs or something.
I am searching for a way in X11 to "partition" or "divide" the screen. For example the physical size of the screen may be 1920x1080 but what if I want 3 sections like
AB C
[snip]
Does something like that exist of X11? All this is on the same physical screen. Just dividing it up.
I suppose you could do something like run three vnc sessions on the server (with appropriate -geometry settings) then vnc-viewers to each of the servers. This is kludgey but would isolate the X sessions somewhat.
What's the functionality you want? The only thing I can think of would be each individual window getting it's own paste buffer.
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Kwan Lowe kwan.lowe@gmail.com wrote:
I am searching for a way in X11 to "partition" or "divide" the screen. For example the physical size of the screen may be 1920x1080 but what if I want 3 sections like
AB C
[snip]
Does something like that exist of X11? All this is on the same physical screen. Just dividing it up.
I suppose you could do something like run three vnc sessions on the server (with appropriate -geometry settings) then vnc-viewers to each of the servers. This is kludgey but would isolate the X sessions somewhat. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, Jerry Geis wrote:
I am searching for a way in X11 to "partition" or "divide" the screen. For example the physical size of the screen may be 1920x1080 but what if I want 3 sections like
AB C
where A is treated as a screen or division by itself, then B and C the same way. Some subset of the screen. So the application running in space A does not affect the application B or C and vice versa.
If you're willing to change window managers, try xmonad:
Here's a screenshot that shows a few layouts, the middle one being somewhat similar to the one you diagram:
http://www.haskell.org/wikiupload/a/aa/Screen-triplehead-galois.jpg
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