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Subject: Re: Novice trying to understand Xrandr and multi monitor setup
From: Ilya Anfimov <ilan () astelecom ! ru>
Date: 2016-05-25 8:45:34
Message-ID: 20160525084534.GA165437 () azor ! tzirechnoy ! ru
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On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 08:38:53PM -0700, TJ Olaes wrote:
> Good evening.
> I have a dual monitor setup and am trying to figure out why ScreenCount
> returns 1. My code is as follows:
Good day.
The ScreenCount is not a RANDR call.
This is from CORE multihead support attempt. That model have a
large pile of drawbacks now: it is very hard to move window from
one monitor to another, or to dynamically make second monitor a
copy of first one, or join monitors in other sensible configura-
tion. In fact, distinct screens was almost isolated from each
other.
Therefore, in attempt to have a good support of multihead, new
extensions introduced, that lists all monitors in one CORE X11
screen, and manipulates them by itsel: first was Xinerama, than
(and now) RANDR.
The CORE multiple screens is almost unsed now (well, AFAIK
fglrx creates two screens on dual-GPU notebooks: one with slow
in-CPU accelerator, and one with discrete GPU).
So you should read RANDR spec to get information about yoour
monitors.
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> FWIW I'm using Xrandr, and I've tried doing "xrandr --auto" just to see
> what it detects and I still get the same result. I'm completely lost
It is very strange that you see some result of xrandr --auto.
Usually, it is completely silent. xrandr -q is for getting in-
formation.
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