I think the primary monitor is always 0, so you could probably change the
order in xrandr as Hiltjo said by moving the --primary flag, e.g.
xrandr --output eDP1 --mode 1920x1080 *--primary* --left-of HDMI1 \
> --output HDMI1 --mode 1920x1080 --left-of VGA1 \
> --output VGA1 --mode 1680x1050
In terms of rules I personally find it more intuitive that monitor 0 is the
primary monitor, rather than the leftmost one. It has a bit more
consistency when moving between computers.
The focusmon and tagmon issues that you noted are indeed there in a default
setup and it's mainly noticeable when you have more than two monitors. In
my three monitor setup I had monitors laid out like this:
[1][0][2]
I presume that's similar to what you get. What I ended up doing was simply
swapping the +/- signs of the keyboard shortcuts.
That said explicitly re-ordering the screens within dwm might be a useful
solution for some.
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 8:34 AM Sebastian Sareyko <sl_AT_setq.dk> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019, at 18:50, Dave Woodfall wrote:
> > Can't you try to detect whether VGA1 is plugged in or not? I use
> > the following:
> >
> > xrandr | grep -q "VGA1 connected" && xrandr --output LVDS1 --off \
> > --output VGA1 --primary --auto
> >
> > If my VGA is connected then it makes it the primary and turns off my
> > laptop screen.
>
> Sure, I could do something like that. But that's not what I want. I want
> to use more than one screen at a time. Also that would not resolve the
> issues in screen ordering with Xinerama.
>
> Thank you for the suggestion though.
>
> --
> Sebastian
>
>
--
Stein Gunnar Bakkeby
OpenBet Developer
bakkeby_AT_gmail.com
Received on Tue Oct 01 2019 - 10:56:28 CEST