At Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:05:19 +0100,
Paulo J Matos wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> This might be a very simple question but I just started using StumpWM
> and when I get StumpWM started, it only seems to use one monitor. I
> can't seem to create frames on the other monitor. I looked at the manual
> but didn't find any information about this.
>
> Is there any support for multiple monitors in StumpWM at the moment?
>
It works for me. I had to make sure to use the latest stumpwm though
instead of the version I got with my distro (ubuntu 8 at the
time). Here is my xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Virtual 2960 1850
EndSubSection
EndSection
The virtual part sets things up so I have a single virtual worspace
that encompasses both monitors. From what I can tell, stumpwm is then
able to use both monitors just fine.
Since I'm using it on my laptop with an external monitor, I also wrote
a quick script that I can run when I unplug my external monitor.
from subprocess import call
import re
import os
class Randr(object):
def __init__(self):
self.screens = {
'monitor': 'DVI1',
'laptop': 'LVDS1'
}
def is_connected(self, fn):
for line in open(fn, 'r'):
if line.startswith('%s connected' % self.screens['monitor']):
return True
def run(self):
fn = '.tmp_buffer_python_xstart'
p = call(['xrandr', '-q'], stdout=open(fn, 'w+'))
if self.is_connected(fn):
xrandr_cmd = [
'xrandr', '--output', self.screens['laptop'], # '--off'
'--right-of', self.screens['monitor']
]
p = call(xrandr_cmd)
p2 = call(['xrandr', '--output', self.screens['monitor'],
'--mode', '1680x1050'])
os.remove(fn)
if __name__ == '__main__':
r = Randr()
r.run()
That just turns the external monitor off using xrandr.
Hope that helps.
Eric
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