Swapping screens causes awesome to reload about awesome-config

[worron]

Unfortunately it's by design. In signals-config.lua the root can be found

	-- Awesome v4.0 introduce screen handling without restart.
	-- Since I'm using single monitor setup and I'm too lazy to rework my panel widgets for this new feature,
	-- simple adding signal to restart wm on new monitor pluging.
	-- For reference, screen-dependent widgets are
	-- redflat.widget.layoutbox, redflat.widget.taglist, redflat.widget.tasklist
	screen.connect_signal("list", awesome.restart)

I've been using single monitor setup all the time so I have neither the wish nor the capacity to polish multi monitor behavior. You can disable restart on screen list (or just replace it with pair added removed) signal and check how it goes, but I can't guaranty correct work for mentioned widgets this way. Hope for your understanding.

[ionsquare]

Yes absolutely, that is extremely helpful, thanks!

I will play around with it and see if I can find an elegant way to make it work without breaking anything, and if I can, I'll submit a PR for you to review and you can decide whether or not it's worth merging.

[ionsquare]

Commenting that line out does fix the issue, I can't tell what breaks without it though. No sense in leaving this issue open anyway.

[worron]

I can't tell what breaks without it though

Glad to know. Still feel free to report if some flaws of mentioned panel widgets will be noticed.