Documentation on Assigning a workspace to a display is confusing

[drone-ah]

Hi,

Loving using regolith, but I have encountered a couple of minor issues. The documentation on assigning a workspace to a display could be improved.

xrandr --listmonitors does indeed list the monitors, but it is unclear which. In my case:

Monitors: 3
 0: +*DP-3 1920/527x1080/296+0+0  DP-3
 1: +HDMI-0 1920/527x1080/296+3840+0  HDMI-0
 2: +DP-5 1920/527x1080/296+1920+0  DP-5

It turns out that the order (for whatever reason) is 0, 2, 1, which explains why i3 sets up the workspaces in the wrong order. Is there a way to determine which monitor number relates to which monitor? I tried loading the Display settings screen, but that only confused matters further.

As a second note, I was able to add this in as a partial configuration in ~/.config/regolith3/i3/config.d/, which meant that I didn't need to stage the whole i3 config file, which makes it easier when upgrading regolith.

I hope this helps, and please let me know if I can assist further.

Thanks & Best Wishes,
Shri

[kgilmer]

Hi Shri, thanks for the feedback! Yes the monitor index in X11 is broken, and I do not have a fix in mind. If you're interested in contributing to the documentation, here is where they live: https://github.com/regolith-linux/regolith-desktop-website/tree/main/content/docs. Would love a PR!

thanks
ken