[xmonad] screen resolution and xmobar

[Yakir Gagnon]

Ah... too bad. Maybe someone else knows what to do?
On 26/06/2013 6:16 PM, "Dmitry Malikov" <malikov.d.y at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 06/26/2013 10:34 AM, Yakir Gagnon wrote:
>
> Hi!
> Started using Xmonad and love it, but:
>
>  I'm using a laptop that I sometimes dock. I then have the laptop screen
> turned off and use instead a much larger separate screen. The resolution
> gets messed up when I login Xmonad (I guess it retained the laptop's
> original resolution). I then run*xrandr --output HDMI3 --mode 1920x1200* to
> change it to the larger screen's full resolution, and everything looks
> nice. But the xmobar doesn't stretch across the full width of the screen
> and the background desktop image is tiled to fill the whole screen...
> I guess what I'm asking is, how can I best set up .xsession and / or
> xmonad.hs (and .xmobarrc) to make this work?
>  Ultimately I'd like it to work when I dock my laptop but also when the
> laptop isn't docked...
>
>  Many thanks in advance for any kind of help!
>
>  Yakir Gagnon
> Queensland Brain Institute (Bldg 79)
> University of Queensland
> St Lucia, Brisbane QLD 4072
> Australia
>
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>  Hi, Yakir.
> It seems to be xmonad issue only, it uses screen resolution retrieved when
> X session started and did not update it dynamically. I wonder what xmonad
> module is responsible for that issue and how it could be fixed.
>
> I'm reproducing this bug every day and it is actually the last thing that
> stops me from using xmobar every day.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> dmitry malikov
> !
>
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