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Use oene physical monitor as two

I have a Big monitor which I would like to simulate more than one monitor.

i.e:

------------
|          |
|    M1    |
------------

should be treated as:

   -------------
   |  M1 |  M2 |
   |     |     |
   -------------

I'm running AwesomeWM version 3.5.9 on X11 1.18.3. I don't care if I can achieve this behaviour by changing the settings of my window manager or the xserver. Whichever way is the easiest.

Cheers

Solution

  • Edit: June 2019. A new feature currently under review for AwesomeWM v4.4 will add a :split() method to the screen API. It does what is done below, but better.

    I just answered this question here: Let awesome wm use only a part of the screen

    This is the code:

    local wdh = screen[1].geometry.width/2
local x, y = screen[1].geometry.x, screen[1].geometry.y
screen[1]:fake_resize(x, y, wdh, screen[1].geometry.height)
screen.fake_add(x+wdh+1, y, wdh, screen[1].geometry.height)

    I will add this to the documentation soon.