Hi, Thanks to hwi...@gmail.com I discovered an interesting, I'd say broken, behavior when using dwm in a cloned screen setup, i.e. connect a laptop to a beamer. In the archives I only found this lengthy thread (http://lists.suckless.org/dwm/0812/7109.html) regarding the dual head setup but it doesn't focus on the cloned setup.
The problem becomes evident when one of the two screen operates on a higher resolution than the other. In the following picture S1 is the beamer, S2 the laptop. +------+-------+ |S1 |S2 | | | | +------+ | | | +--------------+ First of all, the bar is drawn on both screens although just one bar needed to be drawn. This causes the visual effect of a truncated information area (where the selected window's title is drawn) on S2. The more annoying problems start when new windows are spawned on both screen. Because both screens have their own list of clients but share the same visible tag, the windows are drawn on top of each other. When the focus is on screen S1 it is also not possible to focus a window from the other screen S2, although it's also visible on S1. I guess it could be difficult to solve the issue within dwm, therefore I suggest the following guidelines for this setup: - use the same resolution on both screens (I guess this is a good idea in general) - never spawn windows on the other screen - and hide the bar on the other screen Jan Christoph
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