[xmonad] Multiple Screens

Christian Solje csolje at gmail.com
Tue Feb 2 22:06:29 UTC 2016


That is what I am looking for but I just can seem to figure out how to configure it to work. Like what do I need to add and where.

Best Regards

Christian

> On Feb 2, 2016, at 10:53 PM, Peter Jones <mlists at pmade.com> wrote:
> 
> Christian Solje <csolje at gmail.com> writes:
>> I am trying to get my 3 monitor setup to work with independent
>> screens, I am also trying to have the xmobar to show on every screen
>> that I got.
>> How should I go about getting it to work?
> 
> What do you mean by "independent screens"?  Are you talking about
> XMonad.Layout.IndependentScreens or your physical monitors?
> 
> As long as the X11 Haskell module was compiled with Xinerama support
> then multiple monitor support works out of the box.  The default
> behavior is to allow each monitor to display a workspace independent of
> what the other monitors are displaying.
> 
> XMonad.Layout.IndependentScreens allows you to change that behavior to
> match that of dwm's.
> 
>  https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.12/docs/XMonad-Layout-IndependentScreens.html
> 
> As for three copies of xmobar, I believe you just need three
> configuration files specifying where each bar should be displayed and
> then start three copies.
> 
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