Re: [dev] Question upgrading dwm

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:49:26PM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
> 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?

Most people don't have multihead systems so, yes.

>
> Kind regards,
> Anselm
>
Received on Wed Sep 23 2009 - 22:25:54 UTC