I3 bar: dual monitor, all workspace tabs on primary

First of i3 is Awesome (just switched)
Question:
with named workspaces in a dual monitor setup I have i3 status bar set to display only on the external monitor, which works great, except for the fact that the only workspace tabs that display in the bar are those related to the external monitor.
If I show the bar on laptop monitor as well, of course the workspace tabs relevant to laptop display.
So, is there a way to get all workspace tabs displaying in status bar on a single monitor?
Also, have not been able to find out how to reverse alignment of status items and workspace tabs. Would prefer status items aligned left and workspace tabs right -- possible to pull this off with new JSON protocol?
Thanks for ideas

This is due to your window manager treating the two monitors as a larger 'desktop' area - that combined with your specification of the pos=0x0 you are telling it to do this.
If you have only the VGA output on, the top left corner of the VGA monitor is 0x0. If you open a window, and it is placed 10 pixels in and down from the top left, it is at coordinates 10x10 in the x session. Then you turn on the laptop monitor and specify that the top left corner of the laptop monitor should now bo considered 0x0 - but nothing is done to move the windows, so the window with coordinates 10x10 is now near the top left of the laptop monitor.
I see 3 possible ways of acheiving what you want:
1) swap the "pos" parameters in your xrandr commands so that the monitor on the left is always at 0x0 and the one on the right is always at 1920x0 (or whatever). This will leave a large area of available X desktop that is not visible - I don't know how your window manager will treat this. It might try to map windows on the laptop screen space even though that screen is not on. I know openbox is easy to configure where it tries to place windows.
2) Keep the VGA monitor always at 0x0, but place the laptop monitor at a negative offset when you want it on. I don't actually know if X allows negative coordinates like that, but it's worth a shot.
3) Configure your window manager, or use a different window manager, so that it is aware of the two screens and treats them reasonably (e.g. moves windows when the desktop area is changed).
Last edited by Trilby (2014-07-12 12:15:42)

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