On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:27:39PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:22:00PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Specifically, when I create a series of windows, xmonad treats the two screens as one very wide screen. So, for example, the first xterm is ... What am I missing here?
Probably, your system doesn't have the Xinerama development files installed, so X11-extras built without support. Install them, and do a clean rebuild of X11-extras and xmonad (in that order); you should see a configure message from X11-extras stating that Xinerama headers were found, if not, ask again...
ah ha! like this then: ... checking whether to build Xinerama... yes ... checking X11/extensions/Xinerama.h usability... yes checking X11/extensions/Xinerama.h presence... yes checking for X11/extensions/Xinerama.h... yes ... if it doesn't work, I'll write back. and thanks for a quick and accurate response. FTR, on debian its libxinerama-dev A