On 15/10/2012 18:07, Marco wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I feel a little awkward asking about it on the mailing list, given that > there's a big entry in the wiki and Google is not stingy with information, > either. > > What I want > =========== > > My situation is that I have a laptop with Intel graphics adapter and an > external screen connected via display port (I think). I don't know in advance > the model or which resolution the screen has, this rules out any static > configuration. I'd like to connect the external screen without restarting the > Xserver and have another nine independent tags. I want to be able to send > windows from my current screen to the other one. > > What I've tried so far > ====================== > > When I connect the second screen awesome restarts and I have a strange setup. > The external screen is placed at the right of my laptop monitor and entirely > black. However, when I leave the laptop monitor at the right edge, the mouse > cursor is displayed on the external monitor. But I cannot do anything. I can > not move any window to this screen and there is no awesome wibox with the > tags. It seems like awesome is not “running” on this screen. > > Using XRandR > ------------ > > As suggested in the wiki page “Using_Multiple_Screens” I ran > > xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode 1280x1024 --right-of LVDS1 > > Nothing changed. It seems that this is the default mode when an external > screen is being connected. I tried to push the “XF86Display” button on my > laptop, it seems to cycle through all possible xrandr modes. None of them does > what I want. Cloning is not what I want and does not work with screens with > different resolutions and the “--right-of” mode behaves weird as described, I > only have a cursor. > > Using Xinerama > -------------- > > To activate Xinerama I quit my Xserver and ran `Xorg -configure`. I then > placed the file in `/etc/X11/xorg.conf` and added the line `Option "Xinerama" > "true"` to `ServerLayout`. After a restart I had exactly what I wanted. A > second, independent awesome on the second screen. I quickly discovered that > Xinerama does not like connecting and disconnecting the screens on-the-fly. I > always had to restart the Xserver when I connect a screen. I found the > following statement on Wikipedia: > >> Static configuration - physical screens cannot be added or removed >> dynamically […] > > This makes Xinerama unusable for me. > > The solution ?? > =============== > > I am pretty sure this is a not too exotic setup, but I fail to set it up > correctly. Maybe some of you with a multi-head setup can give me a nudge in > the right direction. Can I use XRandR for this? If yes, with which > configuration? Is there another solution I didn't try? > > If you are reading this I appreciate your interest and apologize for this > too long post. > > I am running awesome debian/3.4.13-1 > > > Kind regards > > Marco > > >
Did you try to force a restart, i already experienced some weird things with the auto restarting of awesome (or maybe it was related to xorg or the nvidia driver it's hard to tell). Clément -- Clef GPG : 0xDD51E028
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