Backdrops

[edscott wilson garcia]

On mar, 2003-08-05 at 13:26, Robert Kruus wrote:
> It is rumored that edscott wilson garcia <edscott at imp.mx> wrote:
> 
> <<snip>>
> 
> > > 
> > > It still insists on stretching the images across the screens, unless the I
> > > size them small enough to tile on one screen (1/2 width).  Making them
> > > larger has no effect.  Again it only seem to be an issue with a list of
> > > desktop images, not single images -- the style acts similar to auto for a
> > > single image (no matter which style you select).
> > > Not really a big deal though.
> > 
> > You might have an old version of the xfce4 binaries in your path. Some
> > time ago only the auto was available for the list of images, but that
> > was changed (I'm sorry I can't remember when).
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Edscott
> > 
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> 
> I'd be surprised, AFAIK I'm up to date with -rc2.
> The option to change styles is there, it just doesn't seem to have any effect.
> Could it be that one monitor has a "Virtual 1400 1050" in my XF86Config or
> something along those lines?  Maybe try that later.

Maybe, because the virtual does not apply to a single monitor but to all
monitors combined. Xinerama sees all your monitors as one big monitor.
And maybe I can't reproduce your problem because the xinerama
instructions are being handled by the nvidia driver in my box.