Status bar tags displaying improperly with external display

[bybv]

Loving LARBS. Thank you for sharing this.

I connect an external display and execute the following command:

xrandr --output DP1 --primary --mode 2560x1440

This does successfully render mostly, but for some reason the status bar is having issues.

1. It shows "1" and then the default window layout. None of the other tags show up. This "1" has a blue background.
2. The window layout does not change even if I actually change it.
3. Most of the status bar after the "1" is black, save for a few pixels at the right hand side before the sb-modules appear. The sb-modules do function properly. I'd imagine the statusbar to be blue the whole way across. dmenu does show up as well.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

[bybv]

Here is a screenshot as it might be easier to see what's happening with an image.

[smoorg]

@bybv this is custom build of dwm from Luke. One of the features is it hides tags with no windows on purpose. All issues with theme are probably also riced to his preferences.

https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/dwm/commit/98222433f64e3a995517c71d262e740735f7f6bd

I propose to build your own dwm instead relying on Luke's fork if you don't like it.

[bybv]

@smoorg thank you for the reply. However I perhaps was not clear enough with my issue.

When I use LARBS on my laptop display, everything works perfectly. I love how Luke has configured things. I understand that tags without windows are hidden. That's great.

The issue is that when I connect this same laptop to an external display and run the command I noted, the following happens:

• The laptop display turns off (as I wish) and the external display renders the desktop. So far so good.
• The statusbar stops functioning properly. No matter which tag I move to, even when they are in use, the number '1' remains. For example if I have tags active, say 2,3 and 4, and I switch to number 2, the content of the windows displays and I do in fact switch to that tag number. 2. However, the statusbar's tag numbers to not show up, and the number '1' remains.
• Similarly when switching window layouts (e.g. between Tiling and Bottom stack modes) the mode does in fact change between tiling and stack or whatever. But, the statusbar fails to change. In general the statusbar is not rendering correctly with this external display. It has the color issues I noted above as well.

I hope this helps in articulating the issue.

Thank you!

[bybv]

I figured it all out. It's not an issue with LARBS. Just with this newb.