[Xmonad] workspace/xinerama confusion

Spencer Janssen sjanssen at cse.unl.edu
Wed Oct 3 00:08:42 EDT 2007


On Tuesday 02 October 2007 22:27:39 Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:22:00PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > Specifically, when I create a series of windows, xmonad treats the two
> > screens as one very wide screen. So, for example, the first xterm is
>
> ...
>
> > What am I missing here?
>
> Probably, your system doesn't have the Xinerama development files
> installed, so X11-extras built without support.  Install them, and do a
> clean rebuild of X11-extras and xmonad (in that order); you should see a
> configure message from X11-extras stating that Xinerama headers were
> found, if not, ask again...
>
> sjanssen: This is a frequently asked question, can we have it added to
> the FAQ?
>
> Stefan

Good idea, done.



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