Re: [dwm] Xinerama in the right way, bar position, togglebar(), setmwfact()?

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/5/08, Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:50:32PM +0100, Maarten Maathuis wrote:
> > > On 3/5/08, Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:12:49PM +0100, y i y u s wrote:
> > > > > I think that if these changes will let you to release now, it is ok.
> > > > > We can see later if there is something we can get rid of. Without
> > > > > having a look at the current code it seems reasonable to me. So:
> > > > > thumbs up!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I implemented the stuff already, if you want to give it a try,
> > > > remove the -DWORK from CFLAGS and check it out!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards,
> > > > --
> > > > Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
> > > >
> > > Hardcoding the resolution into a window manager is not nice.
> >
> >
> > Well, you usually hardcode the resolution in x.org as well. But
> > you can always use sx, sy, sw, sh, bh to avoid hardcoding.
> >
>
> I don't see how this could be done dynamically without querying xinerama.
> Display configurations are not always static and it is ugly to assume that.

AFAIR, with newer Xorg releases you are supposed to hardcode
much less in xorg.conf than was done before Xorg 7.3/7.4 as
values which can be detected are meant to be auto-configured
with defaults like an LCD's native resolution.
Received on Wed Mar 05 2008 - 21:48:01 UTC