using two monitors with XFce4

[Remco Lubbers]

Op Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:59:59 +0100 schreef Guido Draheim aan Remco Lubbers
<rpl at concepts.nl>, xfce list <xfce at xfce.org>:

>  > Is it possible to use a second monitor with XFce4 _without_ using Xinerama?
>  > [..cut..]
>  > I can not drag anything there, things just reappear on the other side of
>  > monitor1. DO I have to start 2 XFce-sessions or something?

>  yes, it's a show-stopper, so xfce4 is not going to live on my desktop.

So what do you use now then? I find KDE way to heavy, I'll have a look at
blackbox and derivates this weekend...

>  I did dig into mailinglist archives and noticed messages that dualhead
>  is opted for xfce4.2 based on gtk > 2.2 which has better multihead
>  support - from one binary.

ok, looking forward to that....

>  Similar limitations did exist in kde and gnome about two year ago as well
>  but their are fixed for quite a time now. 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...

Good tip, thanks! xfwm4 does give an error and will not start on the second
monitor, but I reinstalled XFce 3 and started the xfwm on the second monitor,
which I can use without any problems! So I have a 3 and a 4 wm simultaniously
:-)
Is that likely to cause problems? The second screen is not able to connect to
the X session manager and uses the builtin one...

BTW, the screenshot
http://www.xfce.org/images/screenshots/XFce4_xinerama_thumbnail.png
looks like the two monitors are configured seperately, although it says
xinerama. When I activate xinerama, my display just gets stretched over the 2
monitors....

-- 
Remco P. Lubbers (rpl at concepts.nl)

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