Open Nowaker opened 5 years ago
Hi @Nowaker, Thanks for the feedback.
I think throw your comment that the usage is a bit confusing.
The -S
option appears in the More monitors
section but it is meant to select exclusively two monitor among several and places both of them.
So you can only use this option as following: mons -S 1,0:R
but not mons -S 1,0:R,2:R
where you are trying to place a third monitor.
I ran into the same pitfall and only found out how this option is supposed to be used after reading the readme. It was not obvious to me that we are supposed to use the numbers to refer to monitors from the --help
usage information.
I can see now that it mentions using "monitor ids" and that the --primary
option refers to a monitor name, but it is not explained what this "id" is since the name is also unique and used as the identifier for xrandr operations, for example.
I've tried to use
mons
but I can't achieve anything I want. Here's my tries, all failed:mons -S DisplayPort-0,DisplayPort-1:left,DisplayPort-2:right
mons -S DisplayPort-0,DisplayPort-1:L,DisplayPort-2:R 3.
mons -SOutput of
mons
:At this point, I have no idea how to use
-S
parameter.Please provide examples in
--help
as well as README.md to make things clear.EDIT: Apparently, better examples are in the README.md below, but I didn't scroll down far enough. First part of README.md is the same output as in
--help
so I didn't scroll down further. In this case, I'm asking for better output of--help
only as README.md is good enough.EDIT 2: I still don't know how to configure three monitors. I tried
mons -S 1,0:R,2:R
and I got this - far from what I wanted: