On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 09:43:35AM -0500, Lev Babiev wrote:
>
> On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 07:55:38 Thomas A. Gardiner wrote:
> >
> > 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),
I raised this question a year or so ago, and the conclusion we reached
is that doing placement and other things on a non-rectangular display
was going to be *very* difficult.
You could try bottom-aligning your screens, rather than top-aligning
them, I suppose, though you'll still have problems with various
things.
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