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

[Mathieu Lirzin]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> 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.

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Mathieu Lirzin