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Where you using a multimonitor setup or just a single big monitor?

I found xmonad not so pleasant in multimonitor setup where it saw each monitor as a separate workspace.

I hated that concept too when I first switched to Xmonad, but after a few months I've come to appreciate that behavior. It allows me to keep one screen static while working on another.

This allows me to dedicate a workspace to communication (email, IM, etc), server, development, documentation, etc and move among them easily.

I've been using XMonad in a dual-monitor setup since I started working at Google in January... haven't had any problems with it. My general (rough) impression from walking around the New York office is that about one fifth of engineers here are using XMonad.

Really? I have not seen one other person that uses it. I haven't even heard it discussed, and I asked around a lot when I started. I'm surprised we have never discussed this, actually :)

I've looking for that feature for a while. I'm sold.

I have about a thousand different windows opened at the same time.

I used 2 monitors, and actually really preferred that model of behavior.

Lurking along this thread (google engineer), this is exactly what I want for my multi monitor setup! Chrome on one screen, everything else on another, programmable WM to make organizing that other screen natural.

I don't know too much about the Linux desktop scene, and I'm plenty productive as-is, so I didn't even bother looking. Thanks!

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