[dwm] snapping bugs with multiple screens

I'm not sure if this qualifies as a bug, but I think it's
unexpected/non-optimal behavior.

Example setup:
Laptop screen at 1024x768 with a separate LCD at 1280x1024 positioned on
the left of the laptop. Here's a geom for that:

/* geometries, s{x,y,w,h} and bh are already initualized [sic] here */
/* name bx by bw wx wy ww wh mx my mw mh tx ty tw th mox moy mow moh */
DEFGEOM(desklap, 0, 0, 1280, 0, bh, sw, sh-bh, 0, bh, 1280, wh, 1280, 0, 1024, 768, 0, bh, mw, wh)

I have the bar and master area confined to the first 1280 horizontal
pixels: the separate LCD. The master area is 1280x(1024-bh) while the
tile area is 1024x768. There are two unexpected behaviors related to
snapping in the tile area:

1) Snapping at the top doesn't snap to the top of the tile area, y=0; it
snaps to y=bh.
2) Snapping at the bottom doesn't snap to y=768; it snaps to y=1024.

Since I've defined ty=0 and th=768, this seems incorrect. I don't know C
very well, but it seems like dwm looks at only at the w? vars (and not
the m? or t? vars) to determine when to snap. Changing those would
result in wrong snapping behavior on either the master or tile areas,
though.

Another possible, vaguely related bug: there is no snapping on the
master/tile split (also the physical divide between the monitors).
Perhaps if mw is a constant, or doesn't include "mfact", there could
also be snapping here?

I know dwm isn't particularly concerned with heavy use of floating
windows, but I find them necessary at times (especially with higher
resolution, multiple monitor setups) so it'd be nice to see snapping
work in these situations.

dwm is great software. Thanks!
-john
Received on Sun May 04 2008 - 04:35:43 UTC