Re: FVWM: Re: kde2 support multihead? XFree86v4.? support multihead?

From: Lev Babiev <crion_at_erols.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 09:43:35 -0500

On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 07:55:38 Thomas A. Gardiner wrote:
>
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov wrote:
>
> > Sorry, what do you mean -- "FVWM works with Xinerama", or "FVWM
> supports
> >Xinerama"? By the latter I mean -- FVWM knows that it e.g. shouldn't
> center
> >popups on the global screen, making them split between physical screens.
> >We are using 2x2 screens Xinerama setup under XFree 4.0.2, and FVWM's
> >Xinerama-ignorant behaviour is a bit irritating.
>
> If it's that irritating you could always use ActivePlacement and put the
> windows where you want...

Actually there is more to it than just placing windows. I run dualhead
G400 and 2 monitors running at different resolutions. one is running at
1600x1200, another at 1280x1024. With xinerama, fvwm treats it as a
2880x1200 screen, not realizing that there is a 1280x176 blacked out space
in lower right corner. as a result it places gnome panel (or any other type
of taskbar) smack into that region (partially). Xinerama provides interface
to retrieve monitor configureation, it would be great if fvwm could read it
and avoid placing windows in "blacked-out" areas. (unfortualtely gnome
panel
isn't smart enough to allow setting geometry),

Lev
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Received on Sat Feb 03 2001 - 08:13:18 GMT

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