Disabling effects per display

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On 17 May 2011 18:54, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 08:41 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> Is there a way to disable the effects which happens when pressing the
>> windows button or when clicking per display connected to the computer?
>>
>> If you need a use case where this is turning out to be terrible sit down
>> in your living room with your partner hook your laptop to your tv via
>> hdmi start playing the latest episode of your partner favourite show.
>>
>> Notice that pressing the window button on the keyboard or moving the
>> mouse to "Activities"  will produce a sound from you partner at the same
>> time that will distracts you from the work you a trying to get done on
>> the laptop at the same time....
>
> there's gotta be a point at which we can't consider every possible use
> case, and this has to be close to it. Frankly, if you want to run
> completely different things on two displays connected to the same
> computer, I'd suggest you should probably be running one X session per
> head; right now you're quite badly abusing the concept of a desktop
> session.

This case could fit into the current design though. See
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646249#c2.

Rui