Twinview, maximized windows, panels

[Nick Schermer]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Federico Fanton <jorilx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> recently I switched to a dual-monitor Twinview setup, one monitor is
> below the other, and I'm using the top one as "main" screen..
> My problem is that on the top monitor I have a panel at the bottom of
> the screen, but when I maximize a window this panel gets ignored, so I
> end up with the bottom part of the window being hidden under the panel
> (see screenshot).
>
> Is this a known problem? Should I open a bug report?

Yes, that is known. The problem is that the panel can only set struts
(area on the screen that is not allowed to be overlapped by other
windows) from a screen-edge. not per-monitor, there is nothing for
that in the spec.

Nick