I use i3 on Mac OS X and I don't seem to be able to have a consistent user experience when there is more than one monitor.
Is there a way to force i3 to use only one monitor ? Asked differently: How to disable the second monitor completely so that i3 ignores it ? (from the point of view of i3, the monitor does not exist).
Which monitors are used by the X server is controlled by Xorg itself, at a lower level than the window manager. You'll need to figure out if it's possible to set the OS X X11 layer to only display on a single Mac workspace, and set that one Mac workspace to a specific monitor. I personally don't know how to do that, though.
A release candidate for XQuartz 2.7.7 has been released a few days ago and it fixed one of the issues. I looked into the monitor configuration for X and it seems that it is not trivial. Since I use i3 almost exclusively for urxvt and terminal stuff, I can bear with the limitations.
Asked: Jul 27 '14
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Last updated: Jul 28 '14
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You can use: "workspace xxx output yyy" in your config.
This sounds like an [X-Y problem](http://xyproblem.info/) to me.
Thank you ANOKNUSA I made the question less ambiguous.Don't worry, I tried a lot of solutions to fix the inconsistencies (which are hard to describe). Fact is: only one monitor, no issue :-)
Actually, I was referring to the ambiguity of "consistent user experience." ;) I'll answer it best I can below.