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#1 2014-11-24 10:56:41

Jack_CM
Member
Registered: 2012-02-10
Posts: 55

Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

Hello,

I'm starting to use awesome 3.5.5 and trying to create a wibox which I'd like to be on my 2nd screen. This is the line of code I'm using:

mystatusbar = awful.wibox({ position = "bottom", align = center, screen = 2, ontop = false, width = 1, height = 16 })

but it keeps appearing on screen 1, even if I set screen = 2.

This is the whole configuration rc.lua file:

-- Standard awesome library
local gears = require("gears")
local awful = require("awful")
awful.rules = require("awful.rules")
require("awful.autofocus")
-- Widget and layout library
local wibox = require("wibox")
-- Theme handling library
local beautiful = require("beautiful")
-- Notification library
local naughty = require("naughty")
local menubar = require("menubar")

-- {{{ Error handling
-- Check if awesome encountered an error during startup and fell back to
-- another config (This code will only ever execute for the fallback config)
if awesome.startup_errors then
    naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
                     title = "Oops, there were errors during startup!",
                     text = awesome.startup_errors })
end

-- Handle runtime errors after startup
do
    local in_error = false
    awesome.connect_signal("debug::error", function (err)
        -- Make sure we don't go into an endless error loop
        if in_error then return end
        in_error = true

        naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
                         title = "Oops, an error happened!",
                         text = err })
        in_error = false
    end)
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Variable definitions
-- Themes define colours, icons, font and wallpapers.
beautiful.init("/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/theme.lua")

-- This is used later as the default terminal and editor to run.
terminal = "urxvt"
editor = os.getenv("EDITOR") or "nano"
editor_cmd = terminal .. " -e " .. editor

-- Default modkey.
-- Usually, Mod4 is the key with a logo between Control and Alt.
-- If you do not like this or do not have such a key,
-- I suggest you to remap Mod4 to another key using xmodmap or other tools.
-- However, you can use another modifier like Mod1, but it may interact with others.
modkey = "Mod4"

-- Table of layouts to cover with awful.layout.inc, order matters.
local layouts =
{
    awful.layout.suit.floating,
    awful.layout.suit.tile,
    awful.layout.suit.tile.left,
    awful.layout.suit.tile.bottom,
    awful.layout.suit.tile.top,
    awful.layout.suit.fair,
    awful.layout.suit.fair.horizontal,
    awful.layout.suit.spiral,
    awful.layout.suit.spiral.dwindle,
    awful.layout.suit.max,
    awful.layout.suit.max.fullscreen,
    awful.layout.suit.magnifier
}
-- }}}

-- {{{ Wallpaper
if beautiful.wallpaper then
    for s = 1, screen.count() do
        gears.wallpaper.maximized(beautiful.wallpaper, s, true)
    end
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Tags
-- Define a tag table which hold all screen tags.
tags = {}
for s = 1, screen.count() do
    -- Each screen has its own tag table.
    tags[s] = awful.tag({ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }, s, layouts[1])
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Menu
-- Create a laucher widget and a main menu
myawesomemenu = {
   { "manual", terminal .. " -e man awesome" },
   { "edit config", editor_cmd .. " " .. awesome.conffile },
   { "restart", awesome.restart },
   { "quit", awesome.quit }
}

mymainmenu = awful.menu({ items = { { "awesome", myawesomemenu, beautiful.awesome_icon },
                                    { "open terminal", terminal }
                                  }
                        })

mylauncher = awful.widget.launcher({ image = beautiful.awesome_icon,
                                     menu = mymainmenu })

-- Menubar configuration
menubar.utils.terminal = terminal -- Set the terminal for applications that require it
-- }}}

-- {{{ Wibox
-- Create a textclock widget
mytextclock = awful.widget.textclock()

-- Create a wibox for each screen and add it
mywibox = {}
mypromptbox = {}
mylayoutbox = {}
mytaglist = {}
mytaglist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
                    awful.button({ }, 1, awful.tag.viewonly),
                    awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.client.movetotag),
                    awful.button({ }, 3, awful.tag.viewtoggle),
                    awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.client.toggletag),
                    awful.button({ }, 4, function(t) awful.tag.viewnext(awful.tag.getscreen(t)) end),
                    awful.button({ }, 5, function(t) awful.tag.viewprev(awful.tag.getscreen(t)) end)
                    )
mytasklist = {}
mytasklist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
                     awful.button({ }, 1, function (c)
                                              if c == client.focus then
                                                  c.minimized = true
                                              else
                                                  -- Without this, the following
                                                  -- :isvisible() makes no sense
                                                  c.minimized = false
                                                  if not c:isvisible() then
                                                      awful.tag.viewonly(c:tags()[1])
                                                  end
                                                  -- This will also un-minimize
                                                  -- the client, if needed
                                                  client.focus = c
                                                  c:raise()
                                              end
                                          end),
                     awful.button({ }, 3, function ()
                                              if instance then
                                                  instance:hide()
                                                  instance = nil
                                              else
                                                  instance = awful.menu.clients({
                                                      theme = { width = 250 }
                                                  })
                                              end
                                          end),
                     awful.button({ }, 4, function ()
                                              awful.client.focus.byidx(1)
                                              if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
                                          end),
                     awful.button({ }, 5, function ()
                                              awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
                                              if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
                                          end))

for s = 1, screen.count() do
    -- Create a promptbox for each screen
    mypromptbox[s] = awful.widget.prompt()
    -- Create an imagebox widget which will contains an icon indicating which layout we're using.
    -- We need one layoutbox per screen.
    mylayoutbox[s] = awful.widget.layoutbox(s)
    mylayoutbox[s]:buttons(awful.util.table.join(
                           awful.button({ }, 1, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
                           awful.button({ }, 3, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
                           awful.button({ }, 4, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
                           awful.button({ }, 5, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end)))
    -- Create a taglist widget
    mytaglist[s] = awful.widget.taglist(s, awful.widget.taglist.filter.all, mytaglist.buttons)

    -- Create a tasklist widget
    mytasklist[s] = awful.widget.tasklist(s, awful.widget.tasklist.filter.currenttags, mytasklist.buttons)

    -- Create the wibox
    mywibox[s] = awful.wibox({ position = "top", screen = s })

    -- Widgets that are aligned to the left
    local left_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
    left_layout:add(mylauncher)
    left_layout:add(mytaglist[s])
    left_layout:add(mypromptbox[s])

    -- Widgets that are aligned to the right
    local right_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
--    if s == 1 then right_layout:add(wibox.widget.systray()) end
    if s == 2 then right_layout:add(wibox.widget.systray()) end
    right_layout:add(mytextclock)
    right_layout:add(mylayoutbox[s])

    -- Now bring it all together (with the tasklist in the middle)
    local layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal()
    layout:set_left(left_layout)
    layout:set_middle(mytasklist[s])
    layout:set_right(right_layout)

    mywibox[s]:set_widget(layout)
end
-- }}}

-- {{{ Mouse bindings
root.buttons(awful.util.table.join(
    awful.button({ }, 3, function () mymainmenu:toggle() end),
    awful.button({ }, 4, awful.tag.viewnext),
    awful.button({ }, 5, awful.tag.viewprev)
))
-- }}}

-- {{{ Key bindings
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "Left",   awful.tag.viewprev       ),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "Right",  awful.tag.viewnext       ),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "Escape", awful.tag.history.restore),

    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "j",
        function ()
            awful.client.focus.byidx( 1)
            if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
        end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "k",
        function ()
            awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
            if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
        end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "w", function () mymainmenu:show() end),

    -- Layout manipulation
    awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "j", function () awful.client.swap.byidx(  1)    end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "k", function () awful.client.swap.byidx( -1)    end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "j", function () awful.screen.focus_relative( 1) end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "k", function () awful.screen.focus_relative(-1) end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "u", awful.client.urgent.jumpto),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "Tab",
        function ()
            awful.client.focus.history.previous()
            if client.focus then
                client.focus:raise()
            end
        end),

    -- Standard program
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "Return", function () awful.util.spawn(terminal) end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "r", awesome.restart),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "q", awesome.quit),

    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "l",     function () awful.tag.incmwfact( 0.05)    end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "h",     function () awful.tag.incmwfact(-0.05)    end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "h",     function () awful.tag.incnmaster( 1)      end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "l",     function () awful.tag.incnmaster(-1)      end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "h",     function () awful.tag.incncol( 1)         end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "l",     function () awful.tag.incncol(-1)         end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts,  1) end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),

    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "n", awful.client.restore),

    -- Prompt
    awful.key({ modkey, }, "r",         function () awful.util.spawn('bashrun2') end),

    awful.key({ modkey }, "x",
              function ()
                  awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Run Lua code: " },
                  mypromptbox[mouse.screen].widget,
                  awful.util.eval, nil,
                  awful.util.getdir("cache") .. "/history_eval")
              end),
    -- Menubar
    awful.key({ modkey }, "p", function() menubar.show() end)
)

clientkeys = awful.util.table.join(
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "f",      function (c) c.fullscreen = not c.fullscreen  end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Shift"   }, "c",      function (c) c:kill()                         end),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "space",  awful.client.floating.toggle                     ),
    awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "Return", function (c) c:swap(awful.client.getmaster()) end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "o",      awful.client.movetoscreen                        ),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "t",      function (c) c.ontop = not c.ontop            end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "n",
        function (c)
            -- The client currently has the input focus, so it cannot be
            -- minimized, since minimized clients can't have the focus.
            c.minimized = true
        end),
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "m",
        function (c)
            c.maximized_horizontal = not c.maximized_horizontal
            c.maximized_vertical   = not c.maximized_vertical
        end)
)

-- Bind all key numbers to tags.
-- Be careful: we use keycodes to make it works on any keyboard layout.
-- This should map on the top row of your keyboard, usually 1 to 9.
for i = 1, 9 do
    globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(globalkeys,
        -- View tag only.
        awful.key({ modkey }, "#" .. i + 9,
                  function ()
                        local screen = mouse.screen
                        local tag = awful.tag.gettags(screen)[i]
                        if tag then
                           awful.tag.viewonly(tag)
                        end
                  end),
        -- Toggle tag.
        awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "#" .. i + 9,
                  function ()
                      local screen = mouse.screen
                      local tag = awful.tag.gettags(screen)[i]
                      if tag then
                         awful.tag.viewtoggle(tag)
                      end
                  end),
        -- Move client to tag.
        awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
                  function ()
                      if client.focus then
                          local tag = awful.tag.gettags(client.focus.screen)[i]
                          if tag then
                              awful.client.movetotag(tag)
                          end
                     end
                  end),
        -- Toggle tag.
        awful.key({ modkey, "Control", "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
                  function ()
                      if client.focus then
                          local tag = awful.tag.gettags(client.focus.screen)[i]
                          if tag then
                              awful.client.toggletag(tag)
                          end
                      end
                  end))
end

clientbuttons = awful.util.table.join(
    awful.button({ }, 1, function (c) client.focus = c; c:raise() end),
    awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.mouse.client.move),
    awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.mouse.client.resize))

-- Set keys
root.keys(globalkeys)
-- }}}

-- {{{ Rules
-- Rules to apply to new clients (through the "manage" signal).
awful.rules.rules = {
    -- All clients will match this rule.
    { rule = { },
      properties = { border_width = beautiful.border_width,
                     border_color = beautiful.border_normal,
                     focus = awful.client.focus.filter,
                     raise = true,
                     keys = clientkeys,
                     buttons = clientbuttons } },
    { rule = { class = "MPlayer" },
      properties = { floating = true } },
    { rule = { class = "pinentry" },
      properties = { floating = true } },
    { rule = { class = "gimp" },
      properties = { floating = true } },
    -- Set Firefox to always map on tags number 2 of screen 1.
    -- { rule = { class = "Firefox" },
    --   properties = { tag = tags[1][2] } },
}
-- }}}

-- {{{ Signals
-- Signal function to execute when a new client appears.
client.connect_signal("manage", function (c, startup)
    -- Enable sloppy focus
    c:connect_signal("mouse::enter", function(c)
        if awful.layout.get(c.screen) ~= awful.layout.suit.magnifier
            and awful.client.focus.filter(c) then
            client.focus = c
        end
    end)

    if not startup then
        -- Set the windows at the slave,
        -- i.e. put it at the end of others instead of setting it master.
        -- awful.client.setslave(c)

        -- Put windows in a smart way, only if they does not set an initial position.
        if not c.size_hints.user_position and not c.size_hints.program_position then
            awful.placement.no_overlap(c)
            awful.placement.no_offscreen(c)
        end
    end

    local titlebars_enabled = false
    if titlebars_enabled and (c.type == "normal" or c.type == "dialog") then
        -- buttons for the titlebar
        local buttons = awful.util.table.join(
                awful.button({ }, 1, function()
                    client.focus = c
                    c:raise()
                    awful.mouse.client.move(c)
                end),
                awful.button({ }, 3, function()
                    client.focus = c
                    c:raise()
                    awful.mouse.client.resize(c)
                end)
                )

        -- Widgets that are aligned to the left
        local left_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
        left_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.iconwidget(c))
        left_layout:buttons(buttons)

        -- Widgets that are aligned to the right
        local right_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
        right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.floatingbutton(c))
        right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.maximizedbutton(c))
        right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.stickybutton(c))
        right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.ontopbutton(c))
        right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.closebutton(c))

        -- The title goes in the middle
        local middle_layout = wibox.layout.flex.horizontal()
        local title = awful.titlebar.widget.titlewidget(c)
        title:set_align("center")
        middle_layout:add(title)
        middle_layout:buttons(buttons)

        -- Now bring it all together
        local layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal()
        layout:set_left(left_layout)
        layout:set_right(right_layout)
        layout:set_middle(middle_layout)

        awful.titlebar(c):set_widget(layout)
    end
end)

client.connect_signal("focus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus end)
client.connect_signal("unfocus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal end)
-- }}}

function run_once(cmd)
  findme = cmd
  firstspace = cmd:find(" ")
  if firstspace then
    findme = cmd:sub(0, firstspace-1)
  end
  awful.util.spawn_with_shell("pgrep -u $USER -x " .. findme .. " > /dev/null || (" .. cmd .. ")")
end

run_once("pulseaudio --start")
run_once("pasystray")
run_once("feh --bg-fill ~/Immagini/sfondi/darkwallpaper.jpg")


mystatusbar = awful.wibox({ position = "bottom", align = center, screen = 2, ontop = false, width = 1, height = 16, s == 3 or nil, }) 

Any suggestion?

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#2 2014-11-24 12:55:03

nomorewindows
Member
Registered: 2010-04-03
Posts: 3,548

Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

Are you trying to get it to show up on both screens?  If you have two screens, I'd suggest making your X.org the way it's supposed to be, because running xrandr afterwards doesn't always square up later.  Awesome automatically puts a wibar on every screen.  There is also a key combination that can be added to rc.lua to turn wibar on and off at will on given screen.

Last edited by nomorewindows (2014-11-24 12:56:30)


I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.

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#3 2014-11-24 19:17:37

Jack_CM
Member
Registered: 2012-02-10
Posts: 55

Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

Hello nomorewindows. Thanks for the reply.

I've two screens and I'm trying to make it appears on the second one. I'll try to edit my X configuration accordingly and let you know.
Yet I do not understand why this line of code

if s == 2 then right_layout:add(wibox.widget.systray()) end

is succeeding in placing the systray only on the second screen,

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#4 2014-11-24 21:12:17

nomorewindows
Member
Registered: 2010-04-03
Posts: 3,548

Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

If I have an external monitor connected it calls it screen 1, and the native screen it calls it 2 I think.  But when I only have the native screen then it gets called screen 1.  Not quite sure I understand how it does that.  I think it only puts systray on screen 1 by default.  Did you restart awesome after making changes?
This line here looks ineffective:

mystatusbar = awful.wibox({ position = "bottom", align = center, screen = 2, ontop = false, width = 1, height = 16, s == 3 or nil, }) 

I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.

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#5 2014-11-24 22:36:48

Jack_CM
Member
Registered: 2012-02-10
Posts: 55

Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

Sorry, I just realized the inconsistency in my first post: the actual line of code I'm using is

mystatusbar = awful.wibox({ position = "bottom", align = center, screen = 2, ontop = false, width = 1, height = 16 }) 

whereas this line of code

mystatusbar = awful.wibox({ position = "bottom", align = center, screen = 2, ontop = false, width = 1, height = 16, s == 3 or nil, }) 

was just used for a later and unsuccessful attempt.

I edited the  /etc/X11/xorg.conf file so to set the two monitors up by adding these sections

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier	"LVDS1"
    Option      "PreferredMode" "1366x768"
    Option      "Primary" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier	"VGA1"
    Option      "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
    Option      "Rightof" "LVDS1"
EndSection

but yet the wibox is still on the first monitor. If necessary I'll post the whole X config.

Any way, I restarted X to make these changes effective

Last edited by Jack_CM (2014-11-24 23:04:33)

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#6 2014-11-24 23:26:56

nomorewindows
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Registered: 2010-04-03
Posts: 3,548

Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

I don't know whether you had Xorg.conf setup or not, but it is easier and better to use than just xrandr after awesome is already started.  If you change it to LeftOf, it might put it on the right screen, but then the function is reversed from probably what is physically left and right.  You're using LVDS and VGA just like I am, and it puts the systray on VGA.


I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.

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#7 2014-11-25 09:59:34

Jack_CM
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Registered: 2012-02-10
Posts: 55

Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

Well yes, I don't think that using "LeftOf" would be an effective solution.

nomorewindows wrote:

You're using LVDS and VGA just like I am, and it puts the systray on VGA.

Do  you mean that by using my config. file the tray is placed on the VGA? This is how it should be and what happens to me.
Still no progress on the wibox anyway

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#8 2014-11-25 16:17:32

Jack_CM
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Registered: 2012-02-10
Posts: 55

Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

Uhm, maybe there's some problem with awesome itself (forgive me if I state something like this!), but I found out that

mystatusbar = awful.wibox({ position = "bottom", screen = 1, ontop = false, width = 1, height = 16 })

taken from
http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Conky_bar
works well if the width = 1 parameter is removed. As far as I understand, with the 1-unit-width box is a trick to have it "invisible" and to have its vertical space (in this case a 16 pixel from the bottom) not taken from any other windows. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
If I remove the width parameter, I have a black bar at the bottom in the screen it is supposed to be but, as my final goal is to draw a conky bar, this won't work because the solid bar'd cover it.

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#9 2014-11-27 11:57:33

Jack_CM
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Registered: 2012-02-10
Posts: 55

Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

Some Updates:

First I thought that the problem may be related to a wrong screen numbering, but then I realized that without the width parameter it works well, so it shouldn't be it.

Then another Arch user on IRC with two monitors and the same up-to-date awesome version tried to add that line to his configuration file and it worked. I tried its config. file by simply adding the "culprit" line but the bar was still on the wrong monitor.

I created a new user on my box, to make sure that no other configurations would interfere. I grabbed [the rc.lua from /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua and put it in ~/.config/awesome and then I added

mystatusbar = awful.wibox({ position = "bottom", screen = 2, ontop = false, width = 1, height = 16 })

,and

if s == 2 then mywibox[s] = awful.wibox({position = "bottom", screen = s, ontop = false, width = 1, height = 16 }) end

in the screen.count() for cycle but I've again the same behavior.

Again, if I remove the width parameter, it work properly

I'm a little bit lost here!

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#10 2014-11-27 15:43:56

nomorewindows
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Registered: 2010-04-03
Posts: 3,548

Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

s is just the magic lua argument or so far as awesome is concerned.  Might put a line in there to identify screen number in a wibox.textbox.  There is probably an easier way with xev or something.


I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.

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#11 2014-11-27 16:53:59

GermanG
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Registered: 2014-11-27
Posts: 3

Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

Hey Jack, saw you in the IRC channel, did you find out what was wrong?

Regards,
Germán.

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#12 2014-11-28 14:41:17

Jack_CM
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Registered: 2012-02-10
Posts: 55

Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

@nomorewindows: well as a awesome noob, I'm having hard time even in printing the s variable in the wibox. Anyway, I noticed that even if the room for the wibox is reserved and not taken from other windows, I can actually see it only if the two monitor are bottom-aligned like this:
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and , by using this line of code,

if s == 2 then mywibox[s] = awful.wibox({ position = "bottom",  ontop = false, height = 16, align = left, screen = s, width = 1000 }) end

this is what I see (wide image)
ext21109.png

But If the two monitors are top-aligned the gray bar on the left-bottom disappears. I'm feeling more and more confused.

@GermaG Hello! Yes, I remember you. Thanks for your support, but I'm still looking for a solution.

p.s. I tried the git version with the same results.

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#13 2014-11-28 15:20:00

nomorewindows
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Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

You mean your wibox disappears?  That happens if you ran xrandr after awesome starts, but it could also be that only one wibox is showing.

Last edited by nomorewindows (2014-11-28 15:20:42)


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#14 2014-11-28 17:34:20

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Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

yes, I realized that its "disappearance" is due to the way a multiple monitors desktop is handled, i.e. by drawing a "virtual wide screen". This behavior is highlighted by the screen shot I upload, where the two monitors seem to have the same height whereas it is different and the wibox drawing go underneath the visible area when is set to be on screen 1.

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#15 2014-11-30 17:38:30

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Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

That's because of the difference of the resolutions (probably).


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#16 2014-11-30 17:59:18

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Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

I think so. nomorewindows and GermanG, do you have monitors with the same resolution?

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#17 2014-11-30 18:11:32

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Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

They're diff resolutions.


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#18 2014-12-16 16:29:35

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Re: Awesome 3.5.5: put a wibox on the 2nd monitor

Little note: due to some issue with my laptop, I put my hard-drive in another pc with different hardware (Lucky me it worked mostly immediately), but I observe the same issue. So this is not hardware related

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