workspace/xinerama confusion
Hi list, I am new to xmonad, but am immediately liking it (coming from wmii). I am running debian sid with xmonad 0.3. My dual-head setup is running xinerama but it doesn't seem to behave the way I would expect from the manpage and online stuff. 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 two screens/monitors wide. The second one causes the screens to split down the middle with one xterm on each screen (monitor that is). The third xterm ends up on the right hand monitor which is split in half to accomodate both xterms. I can navigate between all the windows with mod-k/j, switch windows into the master window with mod-return etc. But this all happens across the two monitors. When I switch to workspace 2 (mod-2) I get a blank screen (as there are no wondows there). switch back with mod-1, mod-shift-2 a window, mod-2 and there it is, two monitors wide. This doesn't seem to jive with what I've read -- that each screen should have its own control and be assigned a different workspace. I suspect I have not configured X properly so here is the likely pertinent portion: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" Option "Xinerama" "true" EndSection I will happily provide more detail if needed. What am I missing here? thanks A
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... sjanssen: This is a frequently asked question, can we have it added to the FAQ? Stefan
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
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 22:27:39 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...
sjanssen: This is a frequently asked question, can we have it added to the FAQ?
Stefan
Good idea, done.
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