Re: [RP] ratpoison-1.4.7-rc3 tarballs

[Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas]

Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello again,
>
> I have tried the new ratpoison on my office set up.  This consists of
> two large monitors, one in portrait and one in landscape:
>
> ,----
> | Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3120 x 1920, maximum 8192 x 8192
> | DVI-I-1 connected primary 1920x1200+1200+0 (normal left inverted right x 
> axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm
> |    1920x1200      60.0*+
> |    1600x1200      60.0  
> |    1680x1050      59.9  
> |    1280x1024      60.0  
> |    1280x960       60.0  
> |    1024x768       60.0  
> |    800x600        60.3  
> |    640x480        60.0  
> |    720x400        70.1  
> | DVI-I-2 connected 1200x1920+0+0 left (normal left inverted right x axis y 
> axis) 518mm x 324mm
> |    1920x1200      60.0*+
> |    1600x1200      60.0  
> |    1680x1050      59.9  
> |    1280x1024      60.0  
> |    1280x960       60.0  
> |    1024x768       60.0  
> |    800x600        60.3  
> |    640x480        60.0  
> |    720x400        70.1  
> `----
>
> with an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 graphics card.  Although there are two
> monitors, and I am not specifying xinerama, ratpoison is treating the two
> monitors are one screen.  This doesn't work well at all for me.

But is that a change wrt. 1.4.6?

> I don't have any configuration for Xorg, letting it default
> everything.  The graphics driver is nouveau.

My understanding is that if you don't have any configuration, you're
using xrandr to set up your screens.  Ratpoison is not RANDR aware, it
can't see that there are two screens.

> I hope this feedback is useful.

Of course, thanks!

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