i3 doesn't seem to understand my monitor ordering

asked 2014-10-13 05:49:46 +0000

amagee
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updated 2014-10-13 23:08:02 +0000

I have three monitors (laptop + two external displays). I'm using i3 in a Virtualbox Linux guest on a Windows host.

Now the monitors are working almost perfectly. They're all displaying in their correct resolutions and the ordering is correct when I move my mouse across them, ie. if I move the mouse from the left-most monitor to the right-most monitor, everything behaves as expected.

The problem is that i3's version of the ordering of the monitors doesn't match the physical ordering, or the ordering that the mouse sees.

Instead of the monitors being left to right "1 2 3", they're "3 1 2" or "3 2 1". The focus right and focus left commands reflect the wrong ordering and so I can't use the keyboard shortcuts to horizontally switch between windows in a logical manner.

Any ideas how I can fix this?

EDIT

Here is my xrandr output. I had assumed it was an i3 issue (or at least fixable via i3) mainly because the behaviour is correct and keyboard shortcuts contradict what I see when I move the mouse, but I could easily be wrong about that.

Screen 0: minimum 64 x 64, current 5120 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
VBOX0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1920x1080      60.0*+
   1440x1050      60.0  
   1280x960       60.0  
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.0  
   640x480        60.0  
VBOX1 connected 1600x900+1600+0 0mm x 0mm
   1600x900       60.0*+
   1440x1050      60.0  
   1280x960       60.0  
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.0  
   640x480        60.0  
VBOX2 connected 1920x1080+3200+0 0mm x 0mm
   1920x1080      60.0*+
   1440x1050      60.0  
   1280x960       60.0  
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.0  
   640x480        60.0