On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Anselm R Garbe<garb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/7/20 Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com>: >> 2009/7/20 Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com>: >>> I installed dwm 5.4.1 from the openbsd package on my Thinkpad X61 >>> running openbsd 4.5 (amd64). Works fine, no issues, other than >>> attempts to pipe the date into stdin not working (I think how to use >>> the read-from-stdin facility to display stuff needs to be explained >>> more fully in the documentation). >>> >>> I then downloaded the 5.6 tar file, compiled it, and changed my >>> .xinitrc to point to the resulting dwm executable. I'm running it as I >>> type this. Unlike 5.4.1, left-clicking labels has no effect, other >>> than to blue-highlight the clicked label. To move to displaying the >>> windows associated with, say, label 9, I have to use the keyboard >>> (alt-9). Also, clicking the layout label causes it to toggle between >>> indicating tiled and floating, but no change in the layout occurs; >>> again, this must be accomplished with the keyboard. At least in my >>> particular environment, use of the mouse to change tag or layout is >>> broken in 5.6. >>> >>> My usage of dwm is pretty simple. I start X with startx, and my >>> .xinitrc simply invokes dwm. I then start an xterm and run the >>> applications I want, backgrounding them with the shell. >>> >>> As I said, 5.4.1 works fine, but it looks to me like something got >>> broken subsequent to that version. >> >> What's your output of xrandr ? > > Ah and does disabling the XINERAMA build flags make any difference in > your setup?
Disabling the xinerama build flags appears to fix the problems (I say "appears" because I haven't tested it extensively, but I'm running it now, and the symptoms I described are gone). Thanks for the help. /Don > > --Anselm > >
