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i3 - improved tiling WM

The multi-monitor situation

Michael Stapelberg
-<michael+i3@stapelberg.de>
-March 2010 +<michael@i3wm.org>
+April 2013

Table of Contents

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â¦or: oh no, I have an nVidia graphics card!

Please upgrade your nVidia driver to version 302.17 or newer and i3 will just +work. This document is kept around for historic reasons only.

1. The quick fix

If you are using the nVidia binary graphics driver (also known as blob) -you need to use the --force-xinerama flag (in your .xsession) when starting -i3, like so:

+before version 302.17, you need to use the --force-xinerama flag (in your +.xsession) when starting i3, like so:

Example:

exec i3 --force-xinerama -V >>~/.i3/i3log 2>&1

â¦or use force_xinerama yes in your configuration file.

@@ -86,9 +90,12 @@ actually contains both of your physical screens (but it will not know that these are two screens).

For this very reason, we decided to implement the following workaround: As long as the nVidia driver does not support RandR, an option called ---force-xinerama is available in i3. This option gets the list of screens -once when starting, and never updates it. As the nVidia driver cannot do -dynamic configuration anyways, this is not a big deal.

+--force-xinerama is available in i3 (alternatively, you can use the +force_xinerama configuration file directive). This option gets the list of +screens once when starting, and never updates it. As the nVidia driver cannot +do dynamic configuration anyways, this is not a big deal.

Also note that your output names are not descriptive (like HDMI1) when using +Xinerama, instead they are counted up, starting at 0: xinerama-0, xinerama-1, â¦

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