Hi Fabian, Thanks for your feedback.
> * Starting ratpoison with only the internal monitor, then plugging in > the external screen and configuring it with > xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1280x1024 > xrandr --output VGA1 --right-of LVDS1 You can issue a simple command : --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1280x1024 --right-of LVDS1 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Or even simpler because you're using the default mode : --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- xrandr --output VGA1 --mode auto --right-of LVDS1 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > and restarting ratpoison with the `restart` command. The expected behaviour, is that when issuing or xrandr command, you don't have to restart. Your new screen will be detected and added to your screen list (visible with sdump command). > cbdev@globox-4 ~ % ratpoison -c sdump > 0 0 0 2432 1024 1 Maybe you have an outdated revision of xrandr. Please note you need to have xrandr >= 1.3 running. You can check your version with the following command : --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [mathieu@thinkpad]$ xrandr --version xrandr program version 1.5.0 Server reports RandR version 1.5 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- What is the output on your system for this command ? Thanks, Mathieu _______________________________________________ Ratpoison-devel mailing list Ratpoison-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ratpoison-devel