Re: Call for testing future awesome 1.3: Xinerama new handling

[Mike Erdely <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Julien Danjou wrote:
> The last few days I've been working on a complete rewrite of the
> Xinerama handling of awesome.
> Xinerama screens are now handled like Zaphod screens (multi-head with
> multiple physical screen and displays). That allows changing tags views
> on each screen without changing the whole display.
> In one word: each screen is independant, Xinerama is now more a "big
> display". I always wanted that in a window manager, and I think Xmonad
> also is going this way.
> 
> This can introduce a number of regression in Xinerama mode, but also in
> Zaphod mode and maybe in one screen mode.
> 
> Consequently I ask that if you're using 1.2 to test the current git
> master branch. There won't be any big feature adittion for 1.3 right
> now, only bug fixes.

I've just started using awesome (previously 1.1 from OpenBSD ports) and
now 1.3 (also from OpenBSD ports) and I think is behaviour change makes
awesome unusable with Xinerama.  With awesome 1.3, I cannot use dwm to
launch an application in my second monitor.  I have to drag the window
to the second screen.  And, according to:
http://awesome.naquadah.org/doc/uicb/#index15h2
there's no way from the keyboard to switch focus from one screen to
another.  The way Xinerama was supported in awesome 1.1 made sense and
worked.  I could make awesome behave the way it currently does in 1.3 by
disabling Xinerama and having X just recognize two separate displays.
So, now there's virtually no benefit to Xinerama support.

Am I missing some benefit to this new Xinerama handling?

Thanks.
-ME


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