Didn't the Ion maintainer consider switching to Windows over how totally retarded XrandR and Xinerama are?
Seems that X keeps getting worse and worse even when you thought that would be technically impossible. uriel On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Anselm R Garbe<garb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/6/22 Alexander Krylowsky <w...@tversu.ru> >> >> On Sat, 2009-06-20 17:27:48 +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote: >> > An initial version of the new xinerama support is committed into hg, >> > it's not finished/polished yet, but the basics are usable already. >> > During the development I decided to have a bar per monitor, instead of >> > just one bar. It's less confusing that way. >> > >> > Monitors are currently selected through pressing Mod1-w, Mod1-e (just >> > two initial keybindings), and clients are assigned to the selected >> > monitor and can be re-assigned using Mod1-Shift-w, Mod1-Shift-e resp. >> > >> > There are several bugs still, esp. related to the floating handling >> > (it's currently possible to have a floating client assigned to a >> > monitor even if it's shown on a totally different monitor). >> > >> > The code will have a lot of polishing and some config.h options will >> > go away possibly... one candidate is topbar. >> > >> > Bug reports welcome. >> > >> > Please don't do code reviews yet, I know that it's ugly and needs >> > polishing. >> > >> > Kind regards, >> > Anselm >> >> Sounds good. But what about XrandR support in dwm? afaik, Xinerama is >> deprecated since 2008 in Xorg.. >> There were some pathes on dwm@ list to do this thing, but they're ugly. > > Compare Xinerama(3) and Xrandr(3) on your own. Even if Xrandr does the > job nowadays internally in x.org, it's interface doesn't seem to be > appropriate enough to gather the current screen setup in a similiar > way as the Xinerama interface provides. So as long as Xrandr doesn't > provide a more convenient interface I'll stick to Xinerama, I don't > care if the X.org bunch considers Xinerama as deprecated. They can > consider what they want as long they want, but as long as they don't > provide a real replacement interface for Xinerama I can't be bothered > to deal with Xrandr. > > Kind regards, > Anselm > >
