using two monitors with XFce4

[Guido Draheim]

Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 09:59, Guido Draheim wrote:
> 
>>Similar limitations did exist in kde and gnome about two year ago as well
>>but their are fixed for quite a time now. 
> 
> 
> Humm, last time I checked, Kwin from KDE 3.1 required to be started on
> all screens. Metacity does manage all screens. 
> 
> 
>>In that era I was fixing it
>>with running an extra xfwm -display :0.1 to put a wm on the second head.
>>That is _not_ possible with xfwm4 AFAICS, it reports "some wm already
>>running". That accounts as a bug I'd say but who's going to fix it...
> 
> 
> Wrong, xfwm4 --display :1.0 works - There is no bug here.
> 

$ xfwm4 --display :0.1
** (xfce-mcs-manager:23903): WARNING **: Multi channel MCS manager already detected for screen 0
** Message: xfwm4: Anzahl der virtuellen Desktops nicht gesetzt. Benutze default Einstellungen: 4

There is nothing on the second screen however. So well, going to start
an xfc4-panel --display :0.1 to have something on the secondary head.

When clicking anything on the new panel, the window will be opened on
the _primary_ head. Ooops. So then, here we go and start a terminal
on the seconary head, and in that terminal we start xfc4-panel. After
that, new windows run on the secondary panel.

After that, I have an equal setup on each head, two terminal windows,
one window manager, one xfce panel - atleast that's what it looks
like. Now, let's see what the session manager will make of that.

after login / logout - there is one terminal on the second head,
three terminals on the primary head, two panels on the primary
head, upon logout, the xfce desktop freezes hard. killall X.

*plop*
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