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<h1>The multi-monitor situation</h1>\r
<span id="author">Michael Stapelberg</span><br />\r
-<span id="email"><tt><<a href="mailto:michael+i3@stapelberg.de">michael+i3@stapelberg.de</a>></tt></span><br />\r
-<span id="revdate">March 2010</span>\r
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-<div class="paragraph"><p>…or: oh no, I have an nVidia graphics card!</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Please upgrade your nVidia driver to version 302.17 or newer and i3 will just\r
+work. This document is kept around for historic reasons only.</p></div>\r
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<h2 id="_the_quick_fix">1. The quick fix</h2>\r
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<div class="paragraph"><p>If you are using the nVidia binary graphics driver (also known as <em>blob</em>)\r
-you need to use the <tt>--force-xinerama</tt> flag (in your .xsession) when starting\r
-i3, like so:</p></div>\r
+before version 302.17, you need to use the <tt>--force-xinerama</tt> flag (in your\r
+.xsession) when starting i3, like so:</p></div>\r
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<div class="title">Example:</div>\r
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<pre><tt>exec i3 --force-xinerama -V >>~/.i3/i3log 2>&1</tt></pre>\r
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+<div class="paragraph"><p>…or use <tt>force_xinerama yes</tt> in your configuration file.</p></div>\r
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these are two screens).</p></div>\r
<div class="paragraph"><p>For this very reason, we decided to implement the following workaround: As\r
long as the nVidia driver does not support RandR, an option called\r
-<tt>--force-xinerama</tt> is available in i3. This option gets the list of screens\r
-<strong>once</strong> when starting, and never updates it. As the nVidia driver cannot do\r
-dynamic configuration anyways, this is not a big deal.</p></div>\r
+<tt>--force-xinerama</tt> is available in i3 (alternatively, you can use the\r
+<tt>force_xinerama</tt> configuration file directive). This option gets the list of\r
+screens <strong>once</strong> when starting, and never updates it. As the nVidia driver cannot\r
+do dynamic configuration anyways, this is not a big deal.</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Also note that your output names are not descriptive (like <tt>HDMI1</tt>) when using\r
+Xinerama, instead they are counted up, starting at 0: <tt>xinerama-0</tt>, <tt>xinerama-1</tt>, …</p></div>\r
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