Re: Twinview, Awesome, and dynamic switching

[Uli Schlachter]

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Am 31.01.2011 03:59, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
[...]
 So anyway, if I currently have the external monitor connected and window
 A on the laptop screen, window B on the monitor, then when I disconnect
 the external monitor and run auto-disper, I'm left with one laptop
 screen showing window A. Window B shows on the switcher, but I need to
 switch tiling layouts at least once to get it to show on the laptop
 screen (it seems to still have the old coordinates, so exists beyond the
 laptop screen).
[...]

Hi,

to find out the location of the window after disconnecting a monitor, you could
do something like this.

- - $ xwininfo | grep 'id'
  Now click on the window and remember the window id it gives you, e.g.:
xwininfo: Window id: 0x1a6 16:45 psychon@psytux:~
- - Make the window disappear via disper.
- - $ xwininfo -id 0x1a6

Absolute upper-left X and Absolute upper-left Y tells you where the window
ended up.


One question: Do you have a floating layout in awesome after the restart? If no,
then obviously the selected layout should move the window to its correct place.
If no, then the following snippet in the default rc.lua should make the window
visible:

client.add_signal(manage, function (c, startup)
[...]
  if not c.size_hints.user_position and not c.size_hints.program_position then
 awful.placement.no_overlap(c)
 awful.placement.no_offscreen(c)
  end
[...]


Cheers,
Uli

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Twinview, Awesome, and dynamic switching

[Ng Oon-Ee]

Hi all,

I use a laptop which sometimes has an external monitor connected. I have
a shortcut key bound to the auto-disper utility, which itself calls the
disper utility based on some presets. disper is sort of a simplified
commandline interface to nvidia-settings, sort of like using xrandr
(different syntax/capabilities).

So anyway, if I currently have the external monitor connected and window
A on the laptop screen, window B on the monitor, then when I disconnect
the external monitor and run auto-disper, I'm left with one laptop
screen showing window A. Window B shows on the switcher, but I need to
switch tiling layouts at least once to get it to show on the laptop
screen (it seems to still have the old coordinates, so exists beyond the
laptop screen).

Is this sort of behaviour expected? What's the best way to work around
it?




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