[Xmonad] xinerama not working

Bruce Stephens xmonad at cenderis.demon.co.uk
Sun Jun 3 17:54:50 EDT 2007


Jason Creighton <jcreigh at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:06:30PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:

[...]

>> It's probably worth looking at what's actually in Graphics/X11 in the
>> source for X11-extras.  I managed somehow to get to the situation
>> where everything was linked to libXinerama, but it was still using the
>> dummy functions that didn't use it.  (Though the nm output you gave
>> also looks plausible, so probably this isn't it.)
>
> If you managed to do that, it's definitely a bug. Are you able to
> reproduce this behavior?

Almost certainly not.  It was quite possibly user error: I was messing
about quite a bit, trying to work out what was wrong.

My guess is it won't happen to anyone following the instructions
properly (in particular, running autoconf), or just using more recent
tarballs or darcs downloads.


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