Dual screen with Awesome WM

xrandr –output HDMI-1 –off
xrandr –newmode “1680x1050_gtf” 147.02 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087 -HSync +Vsync
xrandr –addmode VGA “1680x1050_gtf”
xrandr –output VGA –mode “1680x1050_gtf” –left-of LVDS

Notes:
1. My first attempt turned out the error “xrandr: cannot find crtc for output VGA”, the reason was I did not turn HDMI-1 off. I dunno how HDMI-1 exists on my laptop, but for sure i have to kick it off.
2. Awesome WM is awesome, and it default support dual screen.
3. My LCD is 22′ and 1680×1050

折腾Awesome

折腾无止境,一直对此类Tiling WM很有兴趣.. 尽管是14’的屏幕,但因为高分,分辨率和22’的也差不很多. 今日折腾了数小时,配置文件也弄得差不多能看了,各种功能也小有熟悉,果然这类Tiling很好用. 无奈明日还得早起,先丢一些资源链接在这里.

1. awesome wiki主页
2. awesome wiki – Wicked 内有大量示例
3. 样例rc.lua [1],[2]

其他一些:
1. awesome这个名字太邪恶了,以至于google时经常答非所问
2. awesome内各个库也都是类似adj, 诸如beautiful, awful
3. 使用urxvt和pcmanfm,开始远离gnome系列(相比还是太慢了)
4. pcmanfm需要启用fam服务,或者安装gamin(同时会自动删除fam,据说更推荐这个)
5. 修改gtkrc-2.0/gtkrc.mine以指定gtk主题/icon主题
6. .Xdefault里指定X11 mouse主题
7. awesome中文资源好少…. 等闲下来整理一下吧.
8. lua有点意思.
9. 如此配置以后,内存占用比先前少了一半以上.
10. 14’用着也没问题啦[email protected]~

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