monitor=1 overrides follow=keyboard|mouse

[ecnerwala]

When the configuration file includes

monitor = 1
follow = keyboard

dunst always opens notifications on monitor 1. This seems to match what's written at https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst/blob/master/src/x11/screen.c#L307, which checks for a nonzero monitor number first.

However, the man pages say

follow (values: [none/mouse/keyboard] default: none)
Defines where the notifications should be placed in a multi-monitor setup. All values except none override the monitor setting.

which seems to imply that follow=keyboard should work regardless of the monitor setting. The default dunstrc also says

    # If this option is set to mouse or keyboard, the monitor option
    # will be ignored.

Could we change either the documentation or the behavior so that they match?

Installation info

• Version: Dunst - A customizable and lightweight notification-daemon 1.5.0 (2020-07-23)
• Install type: package
• Distro and version: Archlinux

[tsipinakis]

Thanks for the report, monitor will now be ignored if follow_mode != none.