hello, I suppose (but probably Uli, Julien or anxrc will be able to clarify it) that awesome takes info about monitors straight from RandR. You can check that even after the monitor is switched off, 'xrandr -q' still reports it as connected. I don't know how i3 handles that.
As for the driver - for me the opensource one works better, and I have very similar hardware config (5750 with 3 monitors). Here is the link to my post with config and screenshot in case you would like to try it: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=984396#p984396 greetings, Paweł 2011/11/15 andreas <herza...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > i want to know how awesome manages Monitors when they are disconnected > and connect. My scenario is the following. > > I have three LCD Monitors on my workstation. I use a AMD/ATI Radeon 5770 > with 5 mini Displayports to which 3 HP ZR24W are connected via DP. > I also use the proprietary driver fglrx so i can use the eyefinity > feature (although some say it's also working with the opensource driver). > With this feature i don't need xinerama or a second GPU to use all 3 > LCDs. When i start awesome i have 3 different workspaces on each screen. > So when i open a application in fullscreen it will just fill one screen. > When i switch between the workspace numbers that only affects one > screen. So they are all seperated from each other although i can move > windows from screen to screen. I guess that's the default behaviour for > awesome with Multi-Head. > > So now it comes to the question. When i turn off one of the screens, or > all, and i turn it/them back on, everything is still on the screen/place > it had before the turning off/on. I also recognized that when i turn my > right screen off i can still move my mouse there and grab the window > without seeing it and move it to the middle or left screen. When i use > i3 (my second WindowManager), the behaviour is different. As soon as i > turn one screen off, all the windows and workspaces move to one of the > screens that are still turned on. > > What does awesome to prevent the issue i have with i3? Awesome acts > exactly how i need it. I turn off all my 3 LCDs when i leave my place > and when i return i turn them on and want everything on the places and > screens they had before i left. But how does awesome manage this? Does > awesome ignore turning off/on? Or is there a nice handling for active > and inactive Displays? > > I hope i could make my issue clear enough :) > > Greetings, > Andi > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org. > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
