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FS#784 - Nvidia's TwinView is not working on awesome 3.4.5+ (Git) User who did this - Uli Schlachter (psychon) ---------- That commit was written in 2009, but the patch was committed to git master only "recently": $ git show --format=fuller 8c87b7c | head -n 5 commit 8c87b7cb57953a4da7abb7bc623880c046f19d6e Author: Julien Danjou <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Mon Sep 21 16:29:19 2009 +0200 Commit: Julien Danjou <[email protected]> CommitDate: Fri May 28 13:26:17 2010 +0200 This issue was already discussed on the mailing list: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.awesome.devel/5207 The problem can be seen here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.awesome.devel/5219 <quote>
Does "xrandr" (the cli command) only print a single screen, too?
Yep, one big-ass screen. Can't use xrandr at all with the nvidia driver -- have to use their GUI (their gui's CLI actually doesn't work as advertised in my experience. Yes, this sucks. But their driver is still worth it.) </quote> Basically, there are multiple ways to announce multiple screens in X11. The old core protocol stuff isn't used anywhere, these days the Xinerama and RandR extensions are used for querying this data. Xinerama only provides you with some simple data while RandR is more sophiscated and also allows changing the setup dynamically. Older versions of awesome only used Xinerama, but somewhere around the commit you pointed at, awesome started using the RandR data if available. The problem is that the NVIDIA driver only announces the correct info through Xinerama. When you ask RandR, it tells you that there is only one big screen. And awesome does believe this. ---------- More information can be found at the following URL: http://awesome.naquadah.org/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=784#comment2115 You are receiving this message because you have requested it from the Flyspray bugtracking system. If you did not expect this message or don't want to receive mails in future, you can change your notification settings at the URL shown above. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
