[Xmonad] xinerama not working

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Sat Jun 2 05:55:06 EDT 2007


nahoo82:
> Am Samstag, den 02.06.2007, 03:08 -0500 schrieb Spencer Janssen:
> > On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:48:55 +0200
> > Ruben Porras <nahoo82 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > If it helps, I'm usisg xorg 1.3.0 and I'm activating the second
> > > monitor through the command
> > > 
> > > xrandr --output VGA --left-of LVDS
> > 
> > Hmm, this should work (I run the same command every day).  Are you
> > running xrandr before or after xmonad starts?
> 
> after xrandr. Im using the same .xsession file as for ion3, I'm only
> changing the last line, from exec ion3 to exec xmonad.
> 
> > Does xmonad pick up the right screen geometry after restart (mod-q,
> > make sure xmonad is in your path)?
> 
> the same problem persist, also after closing all the windows and
> openining a new xterm. Xmonad is in the path.
> 
> > Has your server loaded the Xinerama extension?  Check with 'xdpyinfo |
> > grep XINERAMA'.
> 
> yes, it works well with ion3 + the xinerama module and with metacity. 
> 
> > PS - you should try running Jason's little diagnostic script from an
> > earlier post in this thread
> 
> I cannot find the script in the archives, could someone mail it to me?

Here's the script,

    http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2007-June/000494.html

-- Don


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