Re: Multiple monitors, VirtualScreens and/or Xrandr

Rhialto <[email protected]> Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:41:05 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.window-managers.ctwm
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On Fri 30 Mar 2018 at 12:54:23 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> >> Could add an option to automatically provide the VirtualScreens thingy
> >> based on the xrandr monitor information?
> >> It wouldn't fix those quirks, clearly, but it might encourage people to
> >> use VirtualScreens and in turn to try and fix them.
> > If we want to go this way, we have to define clearly what VirtualScreens
> > should provide.
> 
> I was thinking of having a new option such as
> 
>     VirtualScreensViaXRandR
> 
> which would behave as if you had written a VirtualScreens { ... }
> section with one virtual screen per monitor.
> 
> > At this time, sharing the same config file for different
> > size screens is for example de facto problematic (workspace manager
> > position and other geometry settings).
> 
> I think you're referring to yet-another-problem with VirtualScreens.
> I agree that there are probably lots of problems to solve there, but
> that seems independent from the introduction of VirtualScreensViaXRandR.

I think VirtualScreens were meant only for use on several screens of the
same size. A main feature is that the same workspace might be shown on
any of the monitors, which clearly only works sensibly if they are all
the same size.

But I like the option to set them up automatically if the XRandR info
shows that the screen configuration is appropriate.

-Olaf.
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___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert  -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X
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