For multi-monitors, I use xrandr. I tend to like old school. I was
looking last night for some online documentation that I used to use... It
seems to be all replaced by the expectation that you will use a DE or at
minimum a display manager. Try looking at stuff written before 2000.
Here are some links you may glean some ideas from:
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/
http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Openbox-session
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/beginners-guide-how-to-set-up-a-freebsd-desktop-from-scratch.61659/
https://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.1/doc/X.7.html ;(old, but has a good list
of old X utilities)
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=X&sektion=7&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+12.0-RELEASE+and+Ports
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:47 AM Luís Moreira de Sousa <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you all for the many replies, the tools suggested probably do it, I
still need to test.
@Jeff what you explain is very interesting, and new to me. If I understand
correctly, i3 manages only a part of what users come to expect from a
graphical interface, it requires a complementary DE to fully provide the
experience. The question then is: which programme or platform should be
matched to i3 to deal with DE aspects like external monitors, etc?
Thank you.
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On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 18:30, Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@xxxxxx> wrote:
The usual argument here (and I don't dispute it) is that i3 is a window
manager, and window managers aren't responsible for identifying screens.
Now, it happens that the major competitors -- gnome and kde mostly -- are
also desktop environments, and DE's are responsible for handling screens.
So the question arises.
My personal opinion is that i3 and other similar WM's could use a really
good HOWTO or even descent apt-get'able package that just handles these
missing details -- screen support, automatic volume mounting, etc. But I
don't think it's i3-dev's responsibility, I just think it's lacking in this
otherwise ideal world.
Jeff Abrahamson
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