Second panel?

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Fri Jun 11 15:37:44 CEST 2004


On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 03:02:56PM +0200, Xan wrote:
> Divendres 11 Juny 2004 00:40, en/na Jasper Huijsmans (<Jasper Huijsmans 
> <jasper at xfce.org>>) va escriure:
> 
> > dan radom wrote:
> > > * luiX_ (luixal at softhome.net) wrote:
> > >>   Does anyone knows how to get a second panel? well... multiple
> > >>panels. I would like to have the main panel and then having a second one
> > >>with different settings to put in it some xfce4 plugins as system
> > >>meters, notes and something else..
> > >
> > > I would love to see this in a future release as well.  I use classic dual
> > > head (no xinerama) and this would be very very helpful.
> >
> > Ah, that actually _is_ supported in the CVS version ;-) One per screen,
> > you have to set the DISPLAY variable appropriately.
> 
> How?
> What do you mean with one per screen? Sorry for don't understand it?.
> 

Dual head means having two monitors. In X there are two ways to use them:
- xinerama, this makes the monitors act like they are one big screen.
- multihead, this gives a separate X screen to each monitor.

The CVS version of the panel supports one panel for every X screen.

	Jasper



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