External monitor and laptop display being merged into one

swaywm / sway

i3-compatible Wayland compositor

https://swaywm.org

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External monitor and laptop display being merged into one #2013

Closed juicetin closed 6 years ago

juicetin commented 6 years ago

Hi,

When starting sway (from tty with startx with exec sway in the .xinitrc) with a 4k monitor plugged into my 1080p laptop on Arch (kernel version 4.16.8-1), I get a single large monitor that's 3840x2610+1080 (the 'missing' 1920 on the laptop below the 4k in layout is simply cut off).

Running swaywm -t get_outputs confirms that this is the case as well, showing just a single display.

emersion commented 6 years ago

Sway isn't an X11 compositor. To start it, just run sway in a tty (without startx).

juicetin commented 6 years ago

Yikes, didn't even realise my mistake as I typed it out. Thanks!