Ben Spencer <dangerous....@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Eric Abrahamsen > <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote: >> [how does stump arrange them if they're already plugged in >> when X starts? simple cloning, right? are there other commonly-used >> programs for specifying the location of heads within a screen?] > > Stump doesn't arrange them in any case, it just queries the X server > for the arrangement (through the wince-inducing means of parsing > xdpyinfo output). Cloning is the default for the server, and programs > like xrandr use the RandR extension to tell the server to change it > (then the server notifies stump and it queries it as above). RandR > has effectively superceded Xinerama btw (in a backwards-compatible > manner).
Thanks! It's helpful to understand the chain of notifications a little better. I had also looked at make-screen-heads and wondered if there really wasn't any better way of doing that. > +1 to the comments about downplaying multiple screen support: if there > are any stump users with multiple screens, they're rare and already > know what they're doing. > >> A group is usually referred to as a "desktop" or "workspace" in other >> window managers. > > I'm tempted to suggest we should change this terminology to match > everyone else. The term 'group' is taken from screen, but it doesn't > exactly match the functionality there, and it leads to madness like > this: https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/blob/master/window.lisp#L133-134 Not my call, obviously, but it would get my vote... > This looks like excellent and much-needed newbie documentation, thank > you for your effort. > > Ben _______________________________________________ Stumpwm-devel mailing list Stumpwm-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/stumpwm-devel
