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I also stop using dual monitors when switching to dwm (for 10 minutes) then awesome. Because fiddling with config files to get dual monitors + tags right and ad

I also stop using dual monitors when switching to dwm (for 10 minutes) then awesome. Because fiddling with config files to get dual monitors + tags right and adapting to a tiling workflow with two screens was too much to handle for me. And I didn't find much use for the second monitor after a while (mail ? messaging ? it was just an secondary interface to distractions). It made my life easier because I don't have to manage the second monitor ("am I sharing the good screen ?", "why does the main monitor stay in sleep mode ?", etc.). Both laptop and monitor have the same resolution so I keep using the external monitor, it's more comfortable. I am considering an ultra wide monitor though but I have concerns around it being too wide and adding eye or neck fatigue long term.

scbrg 4y ago
> I also stop using dual monitors when switching to dwm (for 10 minutes) then awesome. Because fiddling with config files to get dual monitors + tags right I'm a dwm user with three screens, and there is literally zero extra configuration that's needed to get it working with multiple screens. The three screens have independent tag sets, and it Just Works. My problem is rather the same as the author of the fine article's, that dwm's two column model doesn't fit very wide screens (>2500px) all that well.
- johnchristopher 4y ago
  > I'm a dwm user with three screens, and there is literally zero extra configuration that's needed to get it working with multiple screens. The three screens have independent tag sets, and it Just Works. There's some confusion, I am using awesome, not dwm. I only spent a few dozen minutes with dwm and then switched to awesome but it wasn't because of dual monitor concerns. Though I am also glad I stopped using dual monitor, whatever the DE.
  - scbrg 4y ago
    Sorry, yes, I understood that. But since you mentioned dwm and awesome in the same breath and then went on to complain about configuration headaches I thought it might be worthwhile to point out that dwm actually doesn't suffer from the configuration headaches that apparently come with awesome + multiple monitors. But then, dwm has its own set of other limitations of course (quite a lot of them, in fact) - everything's a tradeoff.

scbrg 4y ago

> I also stop using dual monitors when switching to dwm (for 10 minutes) then awesome. Because fiddling with config files to get dual monitors + tags right I'm a dwm user with three screens, and there is literally zero extra configuration that's needed to get it working with multiple screens. The three screens have independent tag sets, and it Just Works. My problem is rather the same as the author of the fine article's, that dwm's two column model doesn't fit very wide screens (>2500px) all that well.

johnchristopher 4y ago
> I'm a dwm user with three screens, and there is literally zero extra configuration that's needed to get it working with multiple screens. The three screens have independent tag sets, and it Just Works. There's some confusion, I am using awesome, not dwm. I only spent a few dozen minutes with dwm and then switched to awesome but it wasn't because of dual monitor concerns. Though I am also glad I stopped using dual monitor, whatever the DE.
- scbrg 4y ago
  Sorry, yes, I understood that. But since you mentioned dwm and awesome in the same breath and then went on to complain about configuration headaches I thought it might be worthwhile to point out that dwm actually doesn't suffer from the configuration headaches that apparently come with awesome + multiple monitors. But then, dwm has its own set of other limitations of course (quite a lot of them, in fact) - everything's a tradeoff.