using two monitors with XFce4

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Fri Nov 28 21:16:01 CET 2003


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.

Cheers,
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