It worked when I had separate X11 screens (:0.0 and :0.1) but I
changed to use Xinerama so I could move windows between monitors but
it looks like Awesome may not fully support this.
It does, and by default it (try to) spawns the program on the screen the
pointer is.
Hmm, well apparently not in version 3.4.3! I thought this was the latest
version but the multimonitor support in it seems to be really poor - if I load
a program from a terminal in screen #1 with the mouse on screen #1 it always
appears on screen #0, stuffing the layout around, and trying to drag the app
across to screen #1 is quite difficult because it flickers all over the place
(seems to jump between floating and fixed) making it hard to see where its
current position is. When you finally get it across to the other screen, if
the mouse strays off the edge of the screen while you're resizing and moving
it, the window jumps back to the size of screen #0 (which is about 10x larger
than I was trying to shrink it to.) Maybe I'm not supposed to use the mouse
to drag windows... (old habits die hard)
I also can't run the Psi IM client on screen #1 because although I can move
and resize the window, I can't click on anything, it's like it has frozen. I
have to kill it from a terminal and restart it on screen #0 before I can use
it. (Or rather restart it and leave it on screen #0, since I can't actually
start anything on a screen other than #0.)
There are lots of other issues too - although MPlayer windows are supposed to
be full screen you can still see the taskbar/tags/clock at the top of the
movie, and if you enable title bars on windows they randomly disappear when
you switch tags and suddenly reappear when you focus the window again.
I'm not giving up yet, hoping that I can come up with workarounds for these
issues, but I'm afraid the 'awesomeness' is quickly fading ;-)
Cheers,
Adam.
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