hi, can i use this from the perl bindings? i didnt see a way to do this.
Michael On 25 December 2014 at 00:14, Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > As with myself, I know many of you will be busy over this time. I have, for > a while now, had a topic branch brewing for some time > (ta/various-monitor-improvements) which has laid the groundwork for internal > API changes to how monitor information is sent to modules. > > To do this, I've augmented the CONFIGARGS macro to include a monitor id. > This ID is a number which is assigned to each module struct when it is > created based on poking RandR for this information. Then, modules wishing > to use monitor-specific information can get a struct monitor pointer looking > up the monitor based on the id. > > This means there doesn't have to be any clever trickery trying to maintain a > struct monitor pointer sent to modules, which wouldn't work too well anyway. > Hopefully in the future this will become much more opaque via the use of, > say, libevent. > > I wanted to do this so that I can fix the pager to be monitor aware. As it > happens, that's not quite finished yet; instead, only Ident is making use of > this to now include the name of the monitor the selected window is on. > > By all means test this out, and let me know if there's any oddities. I've > ben using this code for many months without any ill-effects, but my own > limited testing might not be enough, so feedback welcome. > > Any questions, do please ask. > > -- Thomas Adam >
