Re: [STUMP] additions to the info manual

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Ben Spencer <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Eric Abrahamsen
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> [how does stump arrange them if they're already plugged in
>>   when X starts? simple cloning, right? are there other commonly-used
>>   programs for specifying the location of heads within a screen?]
>
> Stump doesn't arrange them in any case, it just queries the X server
> for the arrangement (through the wince-inducing means of parsing
> xdpyinfo output).  Cloning is the default for the server, and programs
> like xrandr use the RandR extension to tell the server to change it
> (then the server notifies stump and it queries it as above).  RandR
> has effectively superceded Xinerama btw (in a backwards-compatible
> manner).

Thanks! It's helpful to understand the chain of notifications a little
better. I had also looked at make-screen-heads and wondered if there
really wasn't any better way of doing that.

> +1 to the comments about downplaying multiple screen support: if there
> are any stump users with multiple screens, they're rare and already
> know what they're doing.
>
>>   A group is usually referred to as a "desktop" or "workspace" in other
>>   window managers.
>
> I'm tempted to suggest we should change this terminology to match
> everyone else.  The term 'group' is taken from screen, but it doesn't
> exactly match the functionality there, and it leads to madness like
> this: https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/blob/master/window.lisp#L133-134

Not my call, obviously, but it would get my vote...

> This looks like excellent and much-needed newbie documentation, thank
> you for your effort.
>
> Ben