Re: [RP] ratpoison-1.4.9 has been released

[Jeremie Courreges-Anglas]

Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tuesday,  4 Apr 2017 at 07:30, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Here's a new release with a lot of changes accumulated over the past
>> three years.  Please see the NEWS entry for a description of changes and
>> new features.
>
> I have finally had a chance to try this out.
>
> Unfortunately, on my 3 screen system, v1.4.9 does not work properly
> whereas 1.4.8 (on Debian testing) does.  In particular, 1.4.9 finds only
> one screen although 1.4.8 finds all three although the latter treats
> them as completely separate servers (i.e. cannot move windows from one
> screen to another).  The X server (with nouveaur driver) doesn't support
> xrandr on this system so maybe this is the problem.

That's likely.  The code that used to support xinerama was removed and
replaced by the xrandr code.  At that time I had no objection regarding
this, as xrandr seemed supported by most drivers.

> Any suggestions for getting 1.4.9 working on a non-xinerama non-xrandr
> multiple screen configuration would be welcome.

First I think we could try to understand why xrandr isn't working on
your nouveau setup:

  https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Randr12/

Does ratpoison print any message on stderr?
(Such as "Xrandr version 1.2 is not supported".)

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