Hi, i want to know how awesome manages Monitors when they are disconnected and connect. My scenario is the following.
I have three LCD Monitors on my workstation. I use a AMD/ATI Radeon 5770 with 5 mini Displayports to which 3 HP ZR24W are connected via DP. I also use the proprietary driver fglrx so i can use the eyefinity feature (although some say it's also working with the opensource driver). With this feature i don't need xinerama or a second GPU to use all 3 LCDs. When i start awesome i have 3 different workspaces on each screen. So when i open a application in fullscreen it will just fill one screen. When i switch between the workspace numbers that only affects one screen. So they are all seperated from each other although i can move windows from screen to screen. I guess that's the default behaviour for awesome with Multi-Head. So now it comes to the question. When i turn off one of the screens, or all, and i turn it/them back on, everything is still on the screen/place it had before the turning off/on. I also recognized that when i turn my right screen off i can still move my mouse there and grab the window without seeing it and move it to the middle or left screen. When i use i3 (my second WindowManager), the behaviour is different. As soon as i turn one screen off, all the windows and workspaces move to one of the screens that are still turned on. What does awesome to prevent the issue i have with i3? Awesome acts exactly how i need it. I turn off all my 3 LCDs when i leave my place and when i return i turn them on and want everything on the places and screens they had before i left. But how does awesome manage this? Does awesome ignore turning off/on? Or is there a nice handling for active and inactive Displays? I hope i could make my issue clear enough :) Greetings, Andi -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
