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Comment by pkkm | Hacker News Reader

Related question, since we're on the topic: does Linux have a way to split a single wide monitor into smaller "virtual" monitors?

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I do this with xmonad. https://xmonad.github.io/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-L...

X does, you can use xrandr --setmonitor.

For example, splitting a 5120x1440 monitor into three:

  xrandr --setmonitor DisplayPort-0-0 1280/297x1440/340+0+0 none
  xrandr --setmonitor DisplayPort-0-1 2560/595x1440/340+1280+0 none
  xrandr --setmonitor DisplayPort-0-2 1280/297x1440/340+3840+0 none

I'd like to do this under AwesomeWM but cannot https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/3132

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