Re: Management of disconnected Monitors

2011-11-18 Thread Dariusz Luksza
Hi, On 11/15/2011 01:38 PM, Uli Schlachter wrote: awesome handles appearing and disappearing screens quite poorly. Whenever it receives a RandrScreenChangeNotify event, it restarts. Since Xinerama doesn't support dynamic screen configuration, awesome has to ignore any changes if the server doe

Re: Management of disconnected Monitors

2011-11-15 Thread Paweł Rumian
I'm afraid I cannot help you further, because my experience is limited to system running open drivers, which seems to behave totally different - especially it still reports the monitor as connected even if it is switched off and has more clear reports on Xinerama (in your list of extensions it is l

Re: Management of disconnected Monitors

2011-11-15 Thread andreas
On 11/15/2011 04:53 PM, Paweł Rumian wrote: >> I use gentoo with -xinerama useflag :) So xdpyinfo says "XINERAMA >> extension not supported by xdpyinfo". > > Strange, because on my gentoo box with USE='-xinerama' I have: > > $ xdpyinfo -ext XINERAMA | tail -n 5 I ran it and i get this: http://

Re: Management of disconnected Monitors

2011-11-15 Thread Paweł Rumian
> I use gentoo with -xinerama useflag :) So xdpyinfo says "XINERAMA > extension not supported by xdpyinfo". Strange, because on my gentoo box with USE='-xinerama' I have: $ xdpyinfo -ext XINERAMA | tail -n 5 XINERAMA version 1.1 opcode: 150 head #0: 1280x1024 @ 2960,0 head #1: 1280x1024 @ 0,

Re: Management of disconnected Monitors

2011-11-15 Thread andreas
On 11/15/2011 04:20 PM, Uli Schlachter wrote: I bet that the following command will confirm that Xinerama is enabled: $ xdpyinfo -ext XINERAMA | tail -n 10 I use gentoo with -xinerama useflag :) So xdpyinfo says "XINERAMA extension not supported by xdpyinfo". But i will recompile it with +xine

Re: Management of disconnected Monitors

2011-11-15 Thread Uli Schlachter
On 15.11.2011 13:43, andreas wrote: > On 11/15/2011 01:38 PM, Uli Schlachter wrote: >> BTW: You *are* using Xinerama. That's how multi-head works in X11 (as long as >> you want to be able to move windows between screens, without that feature you >> can disable Xinerama and use protocol screens). >

Re: Management of disconnected Monitors

2011-11-15 Thread andreas
On 11/15/2011 01:38 PM, Uli Schlachter wrote: BTW: You *are* using Xinerama. That's how multi-head works in X11 (as long as you want to be able to move windows between screens, without that feature you can disable Xinerama and use protocol screens). Xinerama would result in lower performance an

Re: Management of disconnected Monitors

2011-11-15 Thread Paweł Rumian
2011/11/15 andreas : > On 11/15/2011 01:00 PM, Paweł Rumian wrote: >> >> 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

Re: Management of disconnected Monitors

2011-11-15 Thread Uli Schlachter
On 15.11.2011 10:52, andreas wrote: 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

Re: Management of disconnected Monitors

2011-11-15 Thread Julien Danjou
On Tue, Nov 15 2011, andreas wrote: > 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

Re: Management of disconnected Monitors

2011-11-15 Thread Paweł Rumian
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 - f

Management of disconnected Monitors

2011-11-15 Thread andreas
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 fglr