Switching between virtual desktops

Florian Echtler floe at butterbrot.org
Mon Jun 1 15:47:09 PDT 2009


> First of all, I'd like to know if theres a way to change between
> virtual desktops (the same thing that we do when we press Ctrl+Alt
> +Right/Left Arrow Key) using shell script, cause I need them to be
> switching really fast, automatically.
There's a tool called "wmctrl" which does what you want.

> Secondly, I'd like to know if there's any way of making the virtual
> desktops independent from each other. I'll explain: I want like.. 2
> monitors attached to the computer, one showing Desktop 1 [d1] and the
> other one showing Desktop 2 [d2], but they can't interfere on
> eachother, nor they can change the desktop they're displaying (in case
> there's more than 2 virtual desktops running). The monitors are given
> a specific virtual desktop to display, and they can't change it.
Hm, this sounds like you should run a separate Xserver for each monitor.

Florian
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