Re: [STUMP] switching screens

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Sam Kleinman <address@hidden> writes:

> The missing piece of this is that I have a dumped-desktop file for
> "single-head" (laptop) and "dual head" (office) mode. If you load this
> desktop file after sending the xrandr commands the layout weirdness
> should disappear.

Thanks for your reply -- I'm not quite sure what a dumped-desktop file
is, though. I'm using Stumpwm on Archlinux with no desktop environment,
ie right on top of X. Is the desktop file you're talking about something
that's created by your desktop environment?

Thanks again,
Eric

> Hope this helps!
>
> Cheers,
> sam
>
> On Tuesday, January 29 2013, 00:17:47, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>> I've got a laptop with an external monitor, managed I think by xrandr
>> (?), anyway not Xinerama. The external monitor basically works fine:
>> I switch between one and two using two xrandr commands:
>>
>> one.sh:
>> #!/bin/sh
>> xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1280x800 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output DP1 
>> --off --output VGA1 --off
>>
>> and
>>
>> two.sh:
>> #!/bin/sh
>> xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1280x800 --pos 1440x100 --rotate normal 
>> --output DP1 --off --output VGA1 --mode 1440x900 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal
>>
>> These are commands saved using arandr.
>>
>> The laptop boots with the external monitor mirrored, and I create the
>> second display with the second command. The second display is another
>> frame, but not another screen (ie *screen-list* returns a list of one).
>> All this works fine.
>>
>> The problem occurs when I use the first command above to deactivate the
>> external monitor. The frames collapse into one, and I get a weird thing
>> where there are two frames on top of one another. Things initially look
>> normal, but if I split the frame on my laptop screen, I can see half of
>> the other (fullscreen) frame still peeping around the side. By switching
>> and resizing the frames and windows and generally banging on it, I can
>> eventually get it to rearrange the frames properly.
>>
>> It's not a disaster, but is annoying. I'm calling the above shell
>> commands via stumpwm user commands, so if there's anything I can run
>> before or after to clean things up, that would be very easy. Is there
>> anything I should be doing differently?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>>
>>
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