Hello Everyone,

I am new to qtile, using it on my laptop for just 2 months.
My workstation is running AwesomeWM version 3.4 for about 2 years, and I am
considering switch to qtile on the workstation.
This workstation has a setup with 2 ATI graph cards and 4 monitors. I have
give a try to Xinerama and/or Xrandr in the last 2 years for several times,
and found that I can not work with Xinerama or Xrandr for many technical
reasons. Therefore I used a multiple X screen setup, which has a limitation
on moving windows between screens. With a tiling WM, I found this
acceptable (comparing to using only 2 monitors with Xrandr).

The main motivation to switching from AwesomeWM to Qtile is that, AwesomeWM
3.5 removed the support for multiple X screens, and the upstream refused to
fix that (
https://awesome.naquadah.org/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=1069). And I
can not manage to hack the source code of AwesomeWM, while qtile's python
code is much more understandable for me.

I looked into libqtile's source code, and found that xcbq.py already has
the true Screen support, while manager.py only manage the default screen.

Therefore I want to ask, is it possible (or easy) to hack qtile to manage
all the screens (not the PseudoScreen by Xinerama or Xrandr) and handle the
input events correctly? There may be multiple root windows or other details
I don't know.

Thank you very much.

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Jiachen Yang 楊嘉晨
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University
Tel:   080-3853-2770
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