[Thinlinc-technical] multi-headed Linux client

[Pierre Ossman]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:48:00 +0000
David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> wrote:

> 
> Using xfwm4 as the window manager on the terminal improved things
> significantly - the tlclient window now properly spans the two monitors
> (for the record, openbox didn't work any better than i3 on the
> terminal).
> 

Great. i3 seems to be a fairly modern project, so you might want to
file a feature request with them.

> There are still some problems when running i3 on the server side, as it
> expects to use the XRANDR data to determine the screen layout, but it
> doesn't seem to realise that there are multiple monitors. Is the XRANDR
> data expected to be complete and correct?

To the best of our knowledge, yes. Are there any error messages from i3
that might hint at what it doesn't like?

> > That happens when the current mode isn't among the pre-defined ones.
> > That's why it outputs all that noise in the end.
> 
> Understood, thanks. I noticed that the list of standard resolutions
> includes 1360x768 - shouldn't that be 1366x768?

Unfortunately people couldn't really decide on a single width for that
height, so there are monitors of both varieties. No idea which is most
common, so we just picked one for the pre-defined list.

Shouldn't be a practical issue since new modes can be added.

Rgds
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