I would bet that both X and dwm are rendering for the broken screen as well as the external one. Using xrandr to turn off the broken screen should fix that. On Feb 25, 2012 1:19 PM, "Swiatoslaw Gal" <swiatoslaw....@univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Dear gals and guys, > > I have an old thinkpad tablet, which I use as a desktop (the screen > got broken and I detached it). It starts, by default, in 1024x768 > mode, and then dwm and its statusbar work fine. If I correct > the resolution to the monitor specification (eg. 1280x1024) either > by xrandr, or tweaking xorg.conf, there is something strange. > > When I click on tags in the statusbar the highlight changes, but > the tags stay the same. Contrary, if I use alt-# I switch tags, > but with no effect on the status bar. Also, no little squares > indicating windows in tags are shown in the statusbar. As if > it was referring to a missing laptop display!? > > Alt-b hides only (right) half of the statusbar. > > Going down to 1024x768 cancels all those weird effects. > > Any idea? > > Sincerely, > s. > >