fakexrandr-manage click create generate no boxes

[notafox]

there is text on the right side of the GUI.
HDMI-0@2560x1080
EDOD:00ffffffff...000000008a on the right with a remove button. Clicking the most will show most location but the entire area under the pull-down box is gray color without the brown box.

[phillipberndt]

Try drawing a line instead of just clicking:

[notafox]

Thank you for the quick reply. i got the split screen working by drawing the lines blindly in the gray area. I then read dump-config output to see if it works. Mine does not have the dark or brown rectangles. Is there any text file I can edit to fine tune the split? set-config is not intuitive to me to use since no example was given.  On Jul 24, 2017, at 12:47 AM, Phillip Berndt <notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com>> wrote: Try drawing a line instead of just clicking: [cast]<https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/387407/28513091-03efbc24-7055-11e7-82f3-d68f7b57edf7.gif> — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#40 (comment)>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ATrRXKPGaVdOlVww0VI8nc3x_g05YLoPks5sREvzgaJpZM4OgzkV>.

[phillipberndt]

Oh, I see. The canvas is entirely missing 😳 The text format is a bit cumbersome, yes. That's because the format allows for arbitrary nesting of splits. See the paragraph at the bottom of the help of fakexrandr-manage. As long as you only one a single split, just set SPLITS="V xxx N N", where for xxx you insert the exact pixel position at which to split vertically (or use H instead of V in the beginning to split horizontally).

Do you see any error messages in the console while running fakexrandr-manage? Anything that could explain why the drawn monitor is missing?

[notafox]

I double checked and there is no error message unless I click the left or right key - I get indexError: List index out of range. This has no relationship with the missing sub windows. It is a nice tool. It is good to just use command line to do text read to set up the split. Just need to give a few examples. Graphic input is not necessary.

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Sent from my iPhone On Jul 24, 2017, at 12:12 PM, Phillip Berndt <notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com>> wrote: Oh, I see. The canvas is entirely missing 😳 The text format is a bit cumbersome, yes. That's because the format allows for arbitrary nesting of splits. See the paragraph at the bottom of the help of fakexrandr-manage. As long as you only one a single split, just set SPLITS="V xxx N N", where for xxx you insert the exact pixel position at which to split vertically (or use H instead of V in the beginning to split horizontally). Do you see any error messages in the console while running fakexrandr-manage? Anything that could explain why the drawn monitor is missing? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#40 (comment)>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ATrRXPocWTR9zj9TSbjBVtXLFNqugx3Fks5sROyQgaJpZM4OgzkV>.

[phillipberndt]

Hm, simply run fakexrandr-manage.py show-available, copy the output, and replace SPLITS="N" with SPLITS="whatever", where for whatever you subsitute your splits. From the command's output:

It starts by one of the letters H, V or N, describing the
kind of split. H means horizontal, V vertical and N no split. Separated by a
space follows the pixel position of the split. Again separated by a space
follow the two sub-configurations of the left/right or top/bottom halves. Any
additional white-space besides a single space is optional any only serves
better readibility. dump-config indents sub-configurations to this end.
If SPLITS equals N, a configuration is discarded upon saving it.

That is, to have one split (step 1 in the screencast above), insert e.g. V 840 N N to split at 840px, to have the right half split further horizontally (as in step 2), insert V 840 N H 630 N N to split at 630px. This becomes more clear if you insert more whitespace:

V              # Split vertically
840            # at 840px
    N          # Do not split the left half further
    H          # Split the right half horizontally
    630        # At 630px
        N      # Do not split the top half further
        N      # Do not split the lower half further

[leandroafonso]

On my ubuntu needs for this install:

sudo apt-get install xorg-dev libglu1-mesa-dev
sudo apt-get install python3-gi
sudo apt install -y python-gi-dev
sudo apt-get install python-gi-cairo

[calebplum]

Thanks @leandroafonso, I was having the same issue on Ubuntu but installing those packages fixed it for me. Can we have them added to the readme.md along with the other packages that are required to make and configure (libxrandr-dev libx11-dev libxinerama-dev python-gi-dev)?

[phillipberndt]

Sure! Feel free to open a PR if you find the time.