Re: [dev][dwm]size of dwm root window and framebuffer

From: Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 13:54:53 +0200

Hi Kajetan,

On 8 August 2017 at 12:49, Kajetan Jasztal <kajetanjasztal_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> my laptop's screen broke lately and I've got about 168px column
> on left unusable, this xrandr command seems to work, ie it crops
> screen to working area
>
> xrandr --fb 1432x900 --output eDP1 --auto --transform 1,0,-168,0,1,0,0,0,1
>
> but dwm renders on full width of screen (1600x900), so root and
> other windows sticks outside of screen even though xserver don't
> allow mouse pointer to escape past right edge of screen.
>
> shouldn't dwm be rendered to size of framebuffer or am I using
> xrandr the wrong way?

Interesting observation. It's quite likely that dwm always assumes
sx=0 sy=0, which could be the reason, but I can only check on Thu.

BR,
Anselm
>
Received on Tue Aug 08 2017 - 13:54:53 CEST