[Xmonad] xinerama not working

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Fri Jun 1 23:44:42 EDT 2007


nahoo82:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having problems with the xinerama support. I follow the installation
> steps and I run autoreconfigure. The xmonad binary is also linked with
> libXinerama.so.

Can you check that X11-extras found and built with Xinerama support? 
Perhaps provide the configure logs for X11-extras.

> Howeverer when I create the first window it spans along the two
> monitors. Appart from that xmonad looks great :D

Yes, a sure sign X11-extras didn't build with Xinerama. Usually this is
due to the xinerama libs not being found by configure.

-- Don


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