Re: Screen attach/detach: avoid restart?

2016-04-30 Thread Uli Schlachter
Am 30.04.2016 um 16:33 schrieb Bennett Piater: > AFAIK, the only solution is to switch to i3wm. > Awesome does not yet work very well with external monitors. That's quite a 'solution' and quite a claim. [...] >> When I attach or detach an external screen (using xrandr) it seems >> Awesome aut

Re: AwesomeWM + Gvim resize crashes (segfault)

2016-04-30 Thread Abraham Baker
Also not helpful: have you tried just using vim in xterm? That works great for me, but you might be using plugins/features that terminal vim doesn't support. But, if you are just using vanilla Gvim, then you might consider giving terminal vim a try. Abe On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Uli Sc

Re: AwesomeWM + Gvim resize crashes (segfault)

2016-04-30 Thread Uli Schlachter
Hi, Am 30.04.2016 um 16:28 schrieb Jeroen Budts: [...] > When starting gvim with `strace gvim -V9log.txt file.tex > stdout.txt 2> > stderr.txt` I got the following in stdout.txt: > RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) > Vim: Got X error > Vim: Finished. > > Any help on this is much apprec

Re: Screen attach/detach: avoid restart?

2016-04-30 Thread Bennett Piater
AFAIK, the only solution is to switch to i3wm. Awesome does not yet work very well with external monitors. Cheers, Bennett On 04/30/2016 04:22 PM, Jeroen Budts wrote: > Hi all, > > When I attach or detach an external screen (using xrandr) it seems > Awesome automatically restarts. > Is there any

AwesomeWM + Gvim resize crashes (segfault)

2016-04-30 Thread Jeroen Budts
Hi all, A few days ago I started using Awesome as my window manager (running inside XFCE on xubuntu 15.10). The versions from the repository are v3.5.6 (awesome) and 7.4.712 (gvim). I upgraded Awesome to 3.5.9 using a ppa[1]. When Gvim gets resized, either because I resize the master-pane of aweso

Screen attach/detach: avoid restart?

2016-04-30 Thread Jeroen Budts
Hi all, When I attach or detach an external screen (using xrandr) it seems Awesome automatically restarts. Is there any way to avoid this? During a regular working day I happen to connect/disconnect my screen easily 3 to 5 times. This causes my layouts to reset each time (size of master pane, numb