using two monitors with XFce4

[Olivier Fourdan]

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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