EwmhStruts - Does not affect entirety of X screen, only specific monitor

[MidFavila]

When using EwmhStruts in 2.6.9 and early builds of FVWM3, EwmhStruts normally behaves in a "global" manner, affecting the entire X screen. In the latest git pull, however, it only appears to affect one monitor (the leftmost?) in regards to horizontal reservations.

I use a triple-head configuration; DP-0, DP-1, and DP-2, with DP-0 as the leftmost head, 1 in the middle, and 2 on the right. However, the following string only produces reserved space on the right side of DP-0; in prior versions, it would have reserved that space on DP-2.

EwmhBaseStruts 0 137 32 0

Vertical reservation, in this case the topmost 32 pixels, does work globally. Let me know if any more information or clarification is needed.

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[lgsobalvarro]

You can define a EwmhBaseStruts for each monitor:

EwmhBaseStruts DP-0 foo EwmhBaseStruts DP-1 foo EwmhBaseStruts DP-2 0 137 32 0

[MidFavila]

Alright, this is my bad, then. I didn't see anything marked in the changelogs; since this is expected behavior and not a bug, I'll close the issue now.

Thanks.

[MidFavila]

After adjusting my configuration file with the suggested syntax, EwmhBaseStruts simply ceases to function at all; if I'm still in error, could you provide a pointer to the relevant section of the manual for myself and others in the future?

[lgsobalvarro]

My bad, I gave you the wrong syntax:

EwmhBaseStruts screen DP-X foo

[MidFavila]

So, upsides and downsides to report. The issue with screen specification and syntax was a me not staying up to date thing; however, the issue with specifying horizontal reservations remains.

Using the following string, I can successfully manipulate boundaries along the top and bottom of my rightmost display; however, horizontal boundaries still fail to apply.

EwmhBaseStruts screen DP-2 0 137 32 0

The same exact string specified with my leftmost monitor (DP-0) also fails to apply horizontal boundaries.

Oddly, they only seem to apply when the screen is not specified; please advise next steps.

[ThomasAdam]

Hi @MidFavila

Hmm. So if I set:

EwmhBaseStruts screen Virtual-1 0 150 50 0
EwmhBaseStruts screen Virtual-2 0 0 0 0

Then what I see (when I use xterm) on both monitors when I maximize them, is a fully-maximized xterm on Virtual-2, and a window on Virtual-1 which is 150 from the right, and 50 from the top. See the screenshot below. Am I missing something obvious here? Note that I do not have Style * ResizeHintOverride set which means regardless of having a bottom strut of 0 set, there will always be a slight gap.

[MidFavila]

After running over the issue some more on IRC, I'm putting up the details of my XRandR configuration and the FVWM3 debug log, as requested.

log.txt xrandr_out.txt