Autodetecting a second screen?

[firecat53]

Hey,

A while ago on the forums you had mentioned possibly investigating adding auto detection of adding/removing displays so monsterwm wouldn't need to be restarted. I'm thinking of the laptop user who plugs into a TV or external display for movie watching or presentations, primarily.

Not a big deal, just a request. I won't be offended if you're not interested in pursuing that!

Thanks, Scott

[ghost]

On 07/05/2013 03:17 PM, Scott Hansen wrote:

Hey,

A while ago on the forums you had mentioned possibly investigating adding auto detection of adding/removing displays so monsterwm wouldn't need to be restarted. I'm thinking of the laptop user who plugs into a TV or external display for movie watching or presentations, primarily.

Not a big deal, just a request. I won't be offended if you're not interested in pursuing that!

Thanks, Scott

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/c00kiemon5ter/monsterwm/issues/21.

I'm sorry, but you have the wrong the person. There may be other people using my online nickname.

[firecat53]

Ummm...I'm talking about this post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1185069#p1185069 If this isn't you, then there's definitely an issue! :-P

[c00kiemon5ter]

Hi all,

@TuxRag3r is probably confused because he's watching the repo, which means he got a mail notification about the issue, and thought it was a directed message to him (I'm guessing) ..

@firecat53 indeed I started some work on it, as well as some work on the xcb version, but I got carried away with things and I'm too busy these days.

From the small research I did, the best bet is supporting randr and working upon that using XCB. XCB seems nicer than xlib to me, though some things do get tedious..

anyway, if I can steal some free time, I'll try to look into it again.