In both flown-blown GuixSD as well as Guix on a foreign distro, Guix's Emacs seems to use "Gdk" rather than "XRandr" to get screen/monitor information. Every other packaged version of Emacs I've tried uses "XRandr" to get screen/monitor information. This is an issue because "Gdk" apparently doesn't know about individual screens/monitors, but only about the aggregate area, whereas "XRandr" returns individual screen names (e.g. "DVI-1") and their respective areas. This means that, on multi-monitor, where Emacs packages use the `frame.el` library, there is no way of distinguishing screens/monitors (problematically for packages which try to make reference to different screens, e.g. https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/equake ). I thought I'd start here, since I've only found this behaviour on Guix, and `frame.el` doesn't seem to be very forthcoming about how it decides whether to use 'Gdk' or 'XRandr'.
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