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



At 1194104322 time_t, Mike Erdely wrote:
> 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?

No, but everything is so more better in devel version, try a git clone.

Cheers,
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