I guess I was not the only one who was disappointed when Tuomo Valkonen announced that xinerama support has been removed from ion3 since ion-3ds-20070203 and that he would never support it again since “no once really needs it any way” because it’s only “unecological penis enlargement”.

Well there is finally some hope:
Thomas Themel released some working code last week on the ion mailing list
It works for me and there has been other success reports.

The installation is really easy:

  • Download it via darcs or http.
  • Compile it.
  • Add dopath(“mod_xinerama”) to you ion config before the statusbar module.

Thank you very much Thomas for spending some of your time doing this!

By the way Tuomo posted in his usual manner that he will have nothing to do with anyone or any distribution using this module. Thank you anyway Tuomo. Ion3 is still a great window manager.

Update

I just found some debian packages (source and amd64)