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Bugfix: Repeatedly try to find screens if none are available (Thanks mxf) 

When rotating your screens (xrandr --output LVDS1 --rotate right), sometimes
the X server returned no screens which lead to an exit(1) of i3. Now, i3
tries to find screens for up to 5 seconds and only quits afterwards.
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Michael Stapelberg 2009-07-21 15:59:11 +02:00
parent 87494107b3
commit b893ec9987
1 changed files with 44 additions and 34 deletions
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src/xinerama.c
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@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <string.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <xcb/xcb.h>
#include <xcb/xinerama.h>
@ -156,7 +157,13 @@ static void disable_xinerama(xcb_connection_t *conn) {
static void query_screens(xcb_connection_t *conn, struct screens_head *screenlist) {
xcb_xinerama_query_screens_reply_t *reply;
xcb_xinerama_screen_info_t *screen_info;
time_t before_trying = time(NULL);
/* Try repeatedly to find screens (there might be short timeframes in
* which the X server does not return any screens, such as when rotating
* screens), but not longer than 5 seconds (strictly speaking, only four
* seconds of trying are guaranteed due to the 1-second-resolution) */
while ((time(NULL) - before_trying) < 5) {
reply = xcb_xinerama_query_screens_reply(conn, xcb_xinerama_query_screens_unchecked(conn), NULL);
if (!reply) {
LOG("Couldn't get Xinerama screens\n");
@ -194,8 +201,11 @@ static void query_screens(xcb_connection_t *conn, struct screens_head *screenlis
free(reply);
if (num_screens == 0) {
LOG("No screens found. This is weird.\n");
exit(1);
LOG("No screens found. This is weird. Trying again...\n");
continue;
}
break;
}
}