Re: [dwm] DWM 5.3.1 and Xinerama

2008-12-07 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 23:12:55 -0800 Donald Chai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 6, 2008, at 10:32 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 01:14:45 -0500 Jeremy Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are using a recent version of xorg, and don't have your screen resolution

Re: [dwm] DWM 5.3.1 and Xinerama

2008-12-07 Thread yy
2008/12/7 Donald Chai [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BTW, restarting X is not necessary: the *whole purpose* of Xrandr is to avoid doing this. Just plug in your external display and run xrandr --output VGA --auto or whatever your external display is called. dwm is already set up to receive configure

Re: [dwm] DWM 5.3.1 and Xinerama

2008-12-07 Thread Anselm R Garbe
2008/12/7 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry to bother with this question I have been using DWM for a year or so now but never needed to connect my laptop to a projector till today. I realized I had no idea how to do this with DWM. After some research I found that DWM uses

Re: [dwm] DWM 5.3.1 and Xinerama

2008-12-07 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 10:24:18 +0100 yy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/12/7 Donald Chai [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BTW, restarting X is not necessary: the *whole purpose* of Xrandr is to avoid doing this. Just plug in your external display and run xrandr --output VGA --auto or whatever your

[dwm] DWM 5.3.1 and Xinerama

2008-12-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Sorry to bother with this question I have been using DWM for a year or so now but never needed to connect my laptop to a projector till today. I realized I had no idea how to do this with DWM. After some research I found that DWM uses Xinerama and not xrandr. I got as far as compiling DWM

Re: [dwm] DWM 5.3.1 and Xinerama

2008-12-06 Thread Jeremy Jay
If you are using a recent version of xorg, and don't have your screen resolution hardcoded in xorg.conf, it should be autodetected. For example, the last time I had to do a presentation, I plugged in the projector, restarted X, and it auto-detected the right resolution to use. Jeremy On Sat 06

Re: [dwm] DWM 5.3.1 and Xinerama

2008-12-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 01:14:45 -0500 Jeremy Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are using a recent version of xorg, and don't have your screen resolution hardcoded in xorg.conf, it should be autodetected. For example, the last time I had to do a presentation, I plugged in the projector,

Re: [dwm] DWM 5.3.1 and Xinerama

2008-12-06 Thread Donald Chai
On Dec 6, 2008, at 10:32 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 01:14:45 -0500 Jeremy Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are using a recent version of xorg, and don't have your screen resolution hardcoded in xorg.conf, it should be autodetected. For example, the last time I had