AFAIK, the only solution is to switch to i3wm. Awesome does not yet work very well with external monitors.
Cheers, Bennett On 04/30/2016 04:22 PM, Jeroen Budts wrote: > Hi all, > > When I attach or detach an external screen (using xrandr) it seems > Awesome automatically restarts. > Is there any way to avoid this? During a regular working day I happen to > connect/disconnect my screen easily 3 to 5 times. This causes my layouts > to reset each time (size of master pane, number of applications in the > master etc), which is a bit annoying. This also causes scratch.drop > (https://awesomewm.org/wiki/Scratchpad_manager) to lose track of the > applications so they become regular tiled applications. > > I'm using awesome 3.5.9 inside XFCE on Xubuntu 15.10. > > Thanks for any help, > Jeroen > -- GPG fingerprint: 871F 1047 7DB3 DDED 5FC4 47B2 26C7 E577 EF96 7808
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