From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Lirzin Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: ratpoison: Add multiple monitors support. Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:04:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87oahnrzqc.fsf@openmailbox.org> References: <1437573495-1855-1-git-send-email-mthl@openmailbox.org> <87613vl9xh.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54038) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWVK7-0001oY-Kj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:05:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWVK4-0002uJ-FA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:04:59 -0400 Received: from smtp24.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.58]:58107) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWVK4-0002tt-64 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:04:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87613vl9xh.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:06:18 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > Mathieu Lirzin skribis: > >> * gnu/packages/ratpoison.scm (ratpoison)[inputs]: Add "libxinerama". > > I found out that with this change, Ratpoison no longer works on my > multi-monitor setup: When it starts, windows created from my ~/.xsession > occupy just a subset of the screen, and as soon as I try to move things > around, C-t stops responding and I have to kill it. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [...] emacs & exec ratpoison --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I've tried with this in my ~/.xsession with guix on top of Debian testing without any issue. Can you send something so that i can try to reproduce this problem on my machine? > 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. -- Mathieu Lirzin