Dual screen issues

Don Christensen djc at cisco.com
Tue Nov 22 08:37:41 CET 2005


Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 15:15 +0100, houghi wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:17:56AM +0100, houghi wrote:
>>
>>>What should I edit or do so the second screen and/or panel does not loose
>>>its settings?
>>
>>Nobody? Can somebody at least confirm (or deny) they have the same issue
>>with two screens? Or is there a way to launch xfce4-panel with a fixed
>>setting on the second screen?
> 
> 
> IIRC in Xfce 4.2 you can't have 2 panels running at the same time for
> the same user, as there is only one configuration file.
> 
> That issue will be adressed in Xfce 4.4.
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.

I have a dual-head setup using 4.2.0 on Red Hat EL3.  I'm not using
Xinerama, and the panel works just fine.  I can't remember how I got
this going (or if I even did anything special).  Below is the PS
output, with two copies of the panel running.

-Don

djc       3559  0.0  0.0  4208 1060 ?        S    Sep16   0:00 /bin/sh /opt/xfce/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
djc       3578  0.0  0.0  4204 1020 ?        S    Sep16   0:00 /bin/sh /opt/xfce/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
djc       3585  0.0  0.2 12308 4536 ?        S    Sep16   0:26 /opt/xfce/bin/xfce4-session
djc       3594  0.0  0.2 14912 5536 ?        S    Sep16   7:06 xfce-mcs-manager
djc       3597  0.0  0.2 12056 4276 ?        S    Sep16   0:54 xfwm4 --daemon --sm-client-id 11ab474430000108491254900000039540000 --display :0.0
djc       3602  0.0  0.2 13412 4948 ?        S    Sep16   2:04 xfdesktop --sm-client-id 11ab474430000108491255800000039540006 --display :0.0
djc       3604  0.0  0.4 18288 10236 ?       S    Sep16  76:45 xfce4-panel --sm-client-id 11ab474430000110807907800000063780002 --display :0.1
djc       3606  0.0  0.2 14428 5888 ?        S    Sep16   0:18 xfce4-iconbox --sm-client-id 11ab474430000108542511600000092240010 --display :0.1
djc       3608  0.0  0.2 13428 4812 ?        S    Sep16   0:12 xfce4-iconbox --sm-client-id 11ab474430000108542509900000092240009 --display :0.0
djc       3610  0.2  0.6 20412 12524 ?       S    Sep16 256:05 xfce4-panel --sm-client-id 11ab474430000109692558300000230240005 --display :0.0

-- 
Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
djc at cisco.com         Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz, CA
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