Stupid GUI Tricks: OpenBSD + Xinerama + x11/a…

Contributed by
merdely
on Tue May 6 18:01:15 2008 (GMT)
from the xinerama-is-awesome dept.
Xinerama(3)
[
Wikipedia
] has been part of the OpenBSD X distribution for some time. I was able to get a chance to play with it when I got my hands on a second video card and monitor.
As an x11/dwm user, I leaned towards x11/awesome as my Xinerama-aware window manager. More information about how I got Xinerama working and how I configured x11/awesome below.
Prior to adding the second video card and monitor to my system, I was previously able to run xenocara without an
xorg.conf
on my i386 machine. After installing the second card and attaching the monitor, I used 'X -configure' to generate a configuration file. After that, I only had to modify a couple pieces of my xorg.conf. My ServerLayout section looks like this. I had to add the "Xinerama" "On" Option:
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen 0       "Screen0" 0 0
        Screen 1       "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        Option         "Xinerama" "On"
EndSection
Not all window managers are Xinerama-aware/capable. The "
awesome
" window manager is a fork of the
dwm
window manager that supports Xinerama and run-time configuration. Since I use dwm on my laptop, I felt comfortable using awesome on my dual-head desktop. The only pertinent changes I made to my ~/.awesomerc (to make it more useful to me) are changing:
    key
    {
        modkey = {"Mod1"}
        key = "Tab"
        command = "focus_history"
        arg = "-1"
    }to
    key
    {
        modkey = {"Mod1"}
        key = "Tab"
        command = "screen_focus"
        arg = "+1"
    }
    key
    {
        modkey = {"Mod1", "Shift"}

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