using two monitors with XFce4

[Remco Lubbers]

Sorry, my mail was a bit premature. I haven't got any shared object-libraries
for X, so it seems, so I'll redo the whole thing and let you know if it
worked....

Op Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:13:36 +0100 schreef Remco Lubbers aan Olivier Fourdan
<fourdan at xfce.org>, xfce list <xfce at xfce.org>:

>  >> 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....
>  
>  Well, first I upgraded to 4.0.1 using Tod's rpm, but same thing, so I
>  completely deinstalled all rpm's and reinstalled from source, compiling
>  libxfcegui4 with the '--enable-xinerama' option, but still:
>  - maximizing a window places it over the 2 monitors,
>    not showing the lower border on monitor 2
>  - windows will not snap to the edge of monitor 2
>  monitor1 is 1280x1024
>  monitor2 is 1024x768
>  
>  Is this because of the static variant if libxinerama as it says in the readme?
>  Compilation of libxfcegui4 did not halt with any errormessages, so I presume
>  xinerama support is compiled in now? Or should I do the deed again following
>  the procedure in the readme?
>  
>  Thanks again!
>  
>  Remco
>  

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Remco P. Lubbers (rpl at concepts.nl)

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