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As long as I've used awesome (probably 6 months to a year now) I've been able to change my different monitor's workspaces independently using the default rc.lua.

Edit: Based on tessellated's response I may not be understanding the question. By workspace are you referring to the different "desktops" you can reach through the numbered boxes on the upper left (in the default config)?

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> By workspace are you referring to the different "desktops" you can reach through the numbered boxes on the upper left (in the default config)?

Yes, it looks like awesome's "desktops" are equivalent to xmonad's "workspaces".

From awesome's home page:

> Real multihead support (XRandR, Xinerama or Zaphod mode) with per screen desktops (tags);

It looks like support is there. I might give it a shot again, but tessellated's comment about the difficulty of configuration isn't encouraging, particularly when I already have a working xmonad configuration with most of what I want.

In that case I (and tcoppi it seems) have never known it to not work. But I'm using the nvidia driver/xorg setup scripts, so maybe it does require some fiddling if you're doing all that by hand.

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