Didn't the Ion maintainer consider switching to Windows over how
totally retarded XrandR and Xinerama are?
Seems that X keeps getting worse and worse even when you thought that
would be technically impossible.
uriel
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Anselm R Garbe<garbeam_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/22 Alexander Krylowsky <wing_AT_tversu.ru>
>>
>> On Sat, 2009-06-20 17:27:48 +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
>> > An initial version of the new xinerama support is committed into hg,
>> > it's not finished/polished yet, but the basics are usable already.
>> > During the development I decided to have a bar per monitor, instead of
>> > just one bar. It's less confusing that way.
>> >
>> > Monitors are currently selected through pressing Mod1-w, Mod1-e (just
>> > two initial keybindings), and clients are assigned to the selected
>> > monitor and can be re-assigned using Mod1-Shift-w, Mod1-Shift-e resp.
>> >
>> > There are several bugs still, esp. related to the floating handling
>> > (it's currently possible to have a floating client assigned to a
>> > monitor even if it's shown on a totally different monitor).
>> >
>> > The code will have a lot of polishing and some config.h options will
>> > go away possibly... one candidate is topbar.
>> >
>> > Bug reports welcome.
>> >
>> > Please don't do code reviews yet, I know that it's ugly and needs polishing.
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> > Anselm
>>
>> Sounds good. But what about XrandR support in dwm? afaik, Xinerama is
>> deprecated since 2008 in Xorg..
>> There were some pathes on dwm@ list to do this thing, but they're ugly.
>
> Compare Xinerama(3) and Xrandr(3) on your own. Even if Xrandr does the
> job nowadays internally in x.org, it's interface doesn't seem to be
> appropriate enough to gather the current screen setup in a similiar
> way as the Xinerama interface provides. So as long as Xrandr doesn't
> provide a more convenient interface I'll stick to Xinerama, I don't
> care if the X.org bunch considers Xinerama as deprecated. They can
> consider what they want as long they want, but as long as they don't
> provide a real replacement interface for Xinerama I can't be bothered
> to deal with Xrandr.
>
> Kind regards,
> Anselm
>
>
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