dual monitor xinitrc configuration

just as the name says, this is a bit of my xinitrc file as used in a dual monitor evilwm setup.

a little about my setup:
Gentoo
evilwm (emerge x11-wm/evilwm)
SLiM Simple Login Manager (emerge x11-misc/slim)
conky lightweight system monitor (emerge app-admin/conky)

so when i first started using evilwm in a dual monitor setup i realized that i could not drag windows across monitors, which in all reality turned out to be awesome since it made me focus on how to properly optimize my setup for work.

so first thing i did was changed my slim.conf to start my xinitrc from /etx/X11/xinitrc/xinitrc since i am the only user of this machine and since i dont log in as root.

line from slim.conf to call xinitrc:

login_cmd               exec /bin/bash -login /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

this could be changed to start a local xinitrc (~/.xinitrc) but whatever, thats up to the user.

now, the xinitrc file has all my basic stuff starting on each respective monitor. to find out which monitor is which just run xrandr (emerge x11-apps/xrandr or grab it from xorg)

here is output from xrandr monitor 0.0 (right):

 $ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1050
default connected 1680x1050+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1680x1050      50.0*
   1400x1050      51.0
   1280x1024      52.0     53.0
   1280x960       54.0
   1152x864       55.0
   1024x768       56.0     57.0     58.0
   832x624        59.0
   800x600        60.0     61.0     62.0     63.0
   700x525        64.0     65.0
   640x480        66.0     67.0     68.0     69.0
   512x384        70.0     71.0
   400x300        72.0
   320x240        73.0     74.0

here is output from xrandr monitor 0.1 (left):

 $ xrandr
Screen 1: minimum 320 x 175, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1050
default connected 1680x1050+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1680x1050      50.0*
   1400x1050      51.0
   1280x1024      52.0     53.0
   1280x960       54.0
   1152x864       55.0
   1024x768       56.0     57.0     58.0     59.0     60.0     61.0
   960x720        62.0
   928x696        63.0     64.0
   896x672        65.0     66.0
   832x624        67.0
   800x600        68.0     69.0     70.0     71.0     72.0     73.0     74.0     75.0     76.0     77.0
   720x400        78.0
   700x525        79.0     80.0
   640x512        81.0     82.0     83.0
   640x480        84.0     85.0     86.0     87.0     88.0     89.0
   640x400        90.0
   640x350        91.0
   576x432        92.0
   512x384        93.0     94.0     95.0     96.0     97.0
   416x312        98.0
   400x300        99.0    100.0    101.0    102.0    103.0
   360x200       104.0
   320x240       105.0    106.0    107.0    108.0
   320x200       109.0
   320x175       110.0

and here is a snippet from my xinitrc file:

        /usr/bin/evilwm -snap 10 &
        xsetroot -solid \#000000 -cursor_name crosshair -display :0.0
        xsetroot -solid \#000000 -cursor_name crosshair -display :0.1
        conky --display=:0.1 &
        trayer --expand true --transparent true  --alpha 255 --edge bottom --align right --expand true --SetDockType true --widthtype request --margin 130 --display=:0.0 &
        setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
        xbindkeys &
        DISPLAY=:0.0 /bin/bash scripts/work/random_images.sh &
        DISPLAY=:0.1 /bin/bash scripts/work/random_images.sh &

ill try to explain it line by line:
/usr/bin/evilwm -snap 10 & starts evilwm with a snap size of 10px

xsetroot -solid \#000000 -cursor_name crosshair -display :0.0
xsetroot -solid \#000000 -cursor_name crosshair -display :0.1 sets the background color and crosshairs per monitor (xsetroot cursors covered in a previous post)

conky --display=:0.1 &starts conky on my left monitor (conkyrc as described in previous posts)

trayer --expand true --transparent true --alpha 255 --edge bottom --align right --expand true --SetDockType true --widthtype request --margin 130 --display=:0.0 & starts my doc tray to minimize certain programs on the right monitor (emerge x11-misc/trayer)

setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bkspsets my ctrl alt del to restart evilwm (xorg)

xbindkeys & starts xbindkeys (x11-misc/xbindkeys) which launches gmrun (x11-misc/gmrun) bound to alt f2

DISPLAY=:0.0 /bin/bash scripts/work/random_images.sh &
DISPLAY=:0.1 /bin/bash scripts/work/random_images.sh &using the DISPLAY variable to call my wallpaper scripts (from previous posts) per monitor

so with all this done, now when i log in i can just start any other misc programs that i need with my environment all set up.