Re: [dev] Question upgrading dwm

Hi David,

2009/9/23 David Neu <david_AT_davidneu.com>:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Anselm R Garbe <anselm_AT_garbe.us> wrote:
>> This is really odd and it must be related to some older config.h,
>> patch, or something else.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Anselm
>
> Hi Anselm,
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> Everything seems to working now ...
>
> I reviewed config.mk and noticed the following section:
> # Xinerama, un-comment if you want it
> XINERAMALIBS = -L${X11LIB} -lXinerama
> XINERAMAFLAGS = -DXINERAMA
>
> I commented these lines out and plain vanilla dwm compiled, with these warnings
> dwm.c: In function ‘updategeom’:
> dwm.c:1686: warning: unused variable ‘nn’
> but all works well.

Ah that explains a lot. You aren't using dwm-5.6.1, right? You are
using dwm-5.6?
The bug you were noticing was fixed in dwm-5.6.1. Not building with
Xinerama support will do the trick on single head setups as well of
course.

> Note that aptitude shows that packages libxinerama-dev and
> x11proto-xinerama-dev were installed automatically on my Unbuntu
> laptop.
>
> Perhaps the lines referenced above in config.mk should be commented
> out by default, as the comment preceding them seems to imply.

What do others think about this proposal? No Xinerama support by default?

Kind regards,
Anselm
Received on Wed Sep 23 2009 - 12:49:26 UTC