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Locking Workspace to a Screen

asked Jan 15 '13

anonymous user

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I have placed the following in my config file:

workspace 1 output DVI-I-1

workspace 2 output DVI-I-1

workspace 3 output DVI-I-1

workspace 4 output DVI-I-1

workspace 5 output DVI-I-1

workspace 6 output HDMI-0

workspace 7 output HDMI-0

workspace 8 output HDMI-0

workspace 9 output HDMI-0

workspace 0 output HDMI-0

but even though at startup 0 and 6 are on their respective screens, the rest of the workspaces haven't been created yet. Thus when I switch to screen 3 it just creates it on the current screen, not on the DVI monitor. I would like my screen workspace to be locked to a particular monitor, otherwise I end up with completely disorganized screen locations (per monitor like 1,3,8 on my left monitor and 2,4,0) on the other. Anyone have a way to fix this?

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answered Jan 16 '13

shamgar03 gravatar image

Ahh. I had force_xinerama on from back when nvidia didn't support xrandr. Removing it fixed the problem.

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