Hi Benjamin, Benjamin Slade <beo...@gmail.com> skribis:
> 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'. Do you know what it would take to fix it? I suppose most Emacs users would prefer the “correct” behavior. :-) Thanks, Ludo’.
