On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Marco Hunsicker <i...@hunsicker.de> wrote: > Hello Michael, > > thanks for your quick action. > >>> I'm running a somewhat unusual setup with 3 monitors in pivot mode. Total >>> screen size is 3600x1920, but in order to be able to stretch my IDE >>> across 2 >>> monitors I'm using the fake-outputs option to form just 2 workspaces: >>> >>> fake-outputs 1200x1920+0+0,2400x1920+1200+0 > > >> This is the problem. There is a reason this option is not documented: >> it’s not supported and not intended to be used at all. It exists for >> our testsuite only. >> >> Remove the fake-outputs option and the i3bar configuration will work.
Thinking about it again, perhaps what you are looking for are the output names “fake-0”, “fake-1”, etc. Those are what i3bar will see when you use fake-outputs. > > > That's the answer I feared ;) > > I understand that this mode is not supported, but besides the i3bar glitch > it works wonderful with said configuration and provides a great deal of > flexibility with minimal effort. > > As I have a few applications that don't fit into just one workspace, having > three independent workspaces would complicate application switching and > especially startup. > > I guess the application switching could be solved with some scripting to > keep workspaces in sync (or is there already support for this?). > > But at least Eclipse does not seem to be able restore a window configuration > that has been split to different workspaces across sessions. Hm, maybe I > could somehow automate the process of detaching and moving the different > views as well. > > Still, would you be open to receive a patch to make i3bar work? I’ll definitely not accept a patch that makes i3bar use non-fake output names when using fake-outputs, as that defeats the entire purpose. But see above, maybe you can make use of the fake output names. > > Anyway, thanks much for your feedback and for supporting a very useful piece > of software. Have a great weekend. > > Cheers, > > Marco > -- Best regards, Michael
