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lignamorren

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Registered: 2018-03-05

Posts: 18

fvwm saved state info -- display size

I installed Arch (linux 1.14.5, promptly updated to 1.15.6) on a Lenovo laptop with a built-in 1366x768 display. I set up fvwm to be started by xinit, and simply ran startx from a user account. After running fvwm this way, I attached a 1920x1080 monitor via HDMI. Fvwm recognizes the new screen size, mostly, except that the RightPanel defined in the default config, with geometry 120x$[vp.height]-0+0, starts not zero pixels from the right edge, but 0 pixels from the old right edge at 1366. So its effective geometry is 120x1080+1246+0. $[vp.height] and $[vp.width] are both correct, as is the resolution shown by xdpyinfo and xrandr.

Fvwm is clearly saving some state info from its first execution. But where? How can I get it to forget that old screen resolution?

ThomasAdam

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From: Southampton, England

Registered: 2005-10-26

Posts: 149

Re: fvwm saved state info -- display size

FVWM doesn't understand RandR -- once a monitor's size has changed, or you add a new monitor to FVWM, you will have to restart FVWM so that the information is picked up correctly by FVWM.

-- Thomas Adam