Re: Multiple monitors, VirtualScreens and/or Xrandr

Hi Olaf,

Le 31.03.2018 à 19:41, Rhialto a écrit :
> 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.

Admit that it is a very specific case. Add to this the fact that the 
same workspace can not be shown at the same time on the 2 (or more) 
screens, and you could agree with me that this feature should be 
redesigned from scratch.

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

I just replied to Stefan about this :)

++

Max.