How to stack monitors vertically?

apiraino commented 4 years ago

Hi!

Thank you for your work on coding ~~utilities for~~ Sway :-)

I'd like to stack my monitors vertically. Given the following kanshi config:

{                                                                             
    output HDMI-A-2 position 0,0 mode 2560x1440                               
    output eDP-1 position 2560,0 mode 1920x1080                               
}

I'd expect HDMI-A-2 to be "above" and move to eDP-1 hovering the mouse cursor vertically. What actually happens is that I can switch monitors moving the cursor horizontally.

I've read the man page for sway-output and it looks that my config should do. Am i missing something?

$ swaymsg -t get_outputs 
Output eDP-1 'Unknown 0x0521 0x00000000' (focused)
  Current mode: 1920x1080 @ 60.020000 Hz
  Position: 1920,0
  Scale factor: 1.000000
  Subpixel hinting: unknown
  Transform: normal
  Workspace: 2
  Available modes:
    1920x1080 @ 47.999001 Hz
    1920x1080 @ 60.020000 Hz

Output HDMI-A-2 'Dell Inc. DELL U2515H 9X2VY71J16EL'
  Current mode: 2560x1440 @ 59.951000 Hz
  Position: 0,0
  Scale factor: 1.000000
  Subpixel hinting: unknown
  Transform: normal
  Workspace: 3
  Available modes:
    ...
    2560x1440 @ 59.951000 Hz

Thanks

EDIT: possibly related to https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1666#issuecomment-480017611

xdbob commented 4 years ago

Well, as per the man page the position is in the form of <x>,<y> so your config should probably look more like (assuming you want HDMI-A-2 centered above eDP-1):

{                                                                             
    output HDMI-A-2 position 0,1080 mode 2560x1440                               
    output eDP-1 position 320,0 mode 1920x1080                               
}

apiraino commented 4 years ago

oh, you're right I was confused and missed how it works :)

Small correction to your suggestion to have HDMI-A-2 stacked above e-DP-1:

{                                                                             
    output HDMI-A-2 position 0,0 mode 2560x1440                               
    output eDP-1 position 320,1440 mode 1920x1080                               
}

Thanks for the suggestion! :+1:

Closing because I was just dumb :D

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