Re: [PATCH] gnu: ratpoison: Add multiple monitors support.

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@openmailbox.org> skribis:
>
>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Removing the dependency on libxinerama solves the problem for me.
>>>
>>> Am I missing something?  Should we revert it?
>>
>> On my setup it's the opposite.  Without this dependency, the two
>> monitors i have are seen by ratpoison as one "screen" So I'm not able to
>> use the commands described here (info "(ratpoison) Multiple Monitors")
>> and the display of windows is divided across the monitors.
>
> Well yes, that’s actually what I’m used to: rp sees one screen and I
> simply arrange to have one frame on one screen and a second frame on the
> second screen.

I tend to agree with Mathieu that our default ratpoison package should
include xinerama support.  Admittedly, I've not been using ratpoison
much lately, but Ludovic's method of treating multiple monitors as a
single screen would not work well in my multi-monitor use cases,
e.g. when attaching to a television to watch a video on one screen while
working on another screen, or when the two screens together do not form
a rectangle because they're not the same height.

Perhaps we should add a separate 'ratpoison-without-xinerama' package?
Or maybe there's a way to configure ratpoison at run-time to do what
Ludovic wants, even when it was compiled with xinerama support?

      Mark