Thank you very much. I didn't know that xephyr support multiple screens directly. Using "800x600+800+0" instead of "800x600" for the second screen works perfect for me.
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 at 13:19 Sean Vig <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you get any output when you try to run qtile? You should get a few > lines about disabled widgets. With no You can run just a single Xephyr > instance with multiple monitors by just using multiple `-screen WxH` > blocks, so for you ` Xephyr :1 +extension RANDR -screen 800x600 -screen > 800x600`. > > Sean > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Xiaojie Lin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, I am going to try to solve issue #538. So I want to emulate my monitor >> setting using something like Xephyr and Xdmx, but qtile keep failing to >> draw on >> them. Anybody know the correct way to do this? >> >> The steps I have tried are: >> >> 1. ``Xephyr +extension RANDR -screen 800x600 -ac :1 & Xephyr +extension >> RANDR -screen 800x600 -ac :2 &`` (I also tried without ``+extension RANDR``) >> 2. ``Xdmx +xinerama -xinput local -display :1 -display :2 -ac :3`` (I >> also tried without ``+xinerama``) >> 3. ``env DISPLAY=:3 qtile`` (I also tried ``env DIAPLAY=:3.0 qtile``) >> >> In all cases, the emulating screens just keep being blank. But things like >> ``env DIAPLAY=:3 xterm`` succeeded. >> >> I actually do not quite understand how these X things work. It would be >> great >> if somebody can tell me the correct way. The monitor setting I tried to >> emulate is >> that there are two monitors, and the right one is the primary one. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "qtile-dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. > > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "qtile-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/qtile-dev/1326VdrEdtw/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qtile-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
