Xinerama mode [Re: using two monitors with XFce4]

[Olivier Fourdan]

Remco,

Well, first thing, the configure script should tell you whether or not
it found the libXinerama, so that's the first thing to check.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:28, Remco Lubbers wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> In follow up of the messages below:
> I did not have a shared variant of the Xinerama library, so I prepared it
> according to the README and FAQ. Compilation went fine AFAICT, but starting
> xfce4 gave just the xmessage box saying xfce crashed and that I should report
> it.
> Killing X showed me a few xfce modules complaining about not being able to load
> libXinerama.so: file or directory not found, but:
> remco at mars remco]$ ls -lh /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.*
> -rw-r--r--    1 root	 root	      5,3K Sep	5 21:59
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.a
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root	 root		16 Dec	1 20:02
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so -> libXinerama.so.1*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root	 root	      6,7K Dec	1 20:13
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1*
> 
> So I recreated the so.1 with the -shared option instead of -share, because the
> manpage did not mention -share, but same problem: XFce4 just won't start.
> 
> I also created a shared variant of libXxf86misc.
> 
> The only thing I could discover in the XF86 logfile was the DRI could not be
> started, could that be the problem?
> 
> I use XFree86 4.3.0
> Compiled everything from source, did check all md5sums.
> 
> Can anybody help me out here?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Remco
> 
> 
> Op Sat, 29 Nov 2003 23:57:37 +0100 schreef Olivier Fourdan aan Remco Lubbers
> <rpl at concepts.nl>, xfce list <xfce at xfce.org>:
> 
> > On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 19:21, Remco Lubbers wrote:
> >  > according to my logfiles the displays are both detected and setup correctly.
> >  > Starting i.e. blackbox gives me to 2 screens, so things are setup correct then,
> >  > wouldn't you say?
> >  
> >  Yeah, I would say so.
> >  
> >  > speaking of window placement. I read somewhere that in xinerama-mode,
> >  > maximizing a window should be within 1 monitor, if I do that in XFce4, the
> >  > window maximizes over the 2 monitors. Does that mean the libxfcegui4 was not
> >  > compiled with the --enable-xinerama option? How can I tell if the option was
> >  > used during compile?
> >  
> >  If maximized windows lay on the two monitors, then Xinerama support in
> >  xfce is disabled.
> >  
> >  > Well, in my setup (1280x1024 & 1152x864 in xinerama mode) I cannot see or reach
> >  > the lower part of monitor2, so XFce is calibrated no monitor1's resolution
> >  > IMHO. If I setup both monitors in the same resolution everything is fine, but
> >  > maybe that's the missing --xinerama option as well?
> >  
> >  Yes, Xinerama support in xfce takes care of that and adjust to each
> >  screen size.
> >  
> >  > I have to upgrade to 4.0.1 anyway, so I might do that this weekend. If things
> >  > don't work as I want I will install from source and see what happens then....
> >  
> >  Ok :)
> >  
> >  Cheers
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