[xmonad] Problem with Multi-head setup

wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu
Mon Aug 24 19:20:59 EDT 2009


Quoting Eric Thomas <eric.l.m.thomas at gmail.com>:

> What would be the correct way to set up the .xsession file?
> I am trying the following:
>
> exec /home/eric/bin/xmonad
> setenv DISPLAY=beryllium:0.1 exec /home/eric/bin/xmonad

"exec" replaces the current process (i.e. your the shell running your  
.xsession file) with its argument, so this never reaches the second  
line.  Your .xsession file can be as simple as

/home/eric/bin/xmonad &
DISPLAY=:0.1 /home/eric/bin/xmonad

Cheers,
~d


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