Re: [hackers] [dwm][PATCH] Sort screens by horizontal origin

From: Sebastian Sareyko <sl_AT_setq.dk>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:54:36 +0200

On Tue, Oct 01 2019, Stein Gunnar Bakkeby wrote:

> 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

You are correct, changing the primary output using xrandr also makes
this output the first Xinerama screen. So this is a solution to the
problem for two screen setups.

> 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.

Unfortunately this does not seem to be a solution. At least not to me
since the screen order as returned by Xinerama somehow seems to depend
on when I plug the monitors in. And since I use a Laptop that I carry
around and plug monitors in and out the order of the screens is
sometimes correct/as expected and sometimes not. So swapping keybindings
in dwm would not solve the issue.
Received on Wed Oct 02 2019 - 20:54:36 CEST