Hi Jan, On 18 August 2012 12:26, Jan Christoph Ebersbach <j...@e-jc.de> wrote: > 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
Thanks for reporting this issue. It's on my TODO list now. I hope to come up with a general multi-screen handling fix, as the current state is quite unsatisfactory. Best regards, Anselm
