using two monitors with XFce4

[Remco Lubbers]

Op Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:16:01 +0100 schreef Olivier Fourdan aan xfce list
<xfce at xfce.org>:

> 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. 

starting KDE 3.1 on my box gave me 2 useable screens...
KDE was installed out-of-the-MDK-box, maybe that's why (?)

>  > 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.

right!, the difference is "-display" and "--display"!
The later does turn the X x-pointer into a XFce pointer, but clicking anywhere
on the screen echoos on the commandline:
[remco at mars remco]$ xfwm4 --display :1.0
(xfwm4:13589): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :1.0

While starting xfwm (v3) with the same options gives me a faily useable screen,
although the screens can not "cooperate".

Any thoughts?

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

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