Fwd: Re: Xinerama

[Chris de Vidal]

We had this conversation offlist.  Perhaps my Xinerama problem will be fixed
with an upgrade.

/dev/idal

--- Chris de Vidal <cdevidal at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 08:08:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Chris de Vidal <cdevidal at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Xinerama
> To: Francois Le Clainche <fleclainche at wanadoo.fr>
> 
> --- Francois Le Clainche <fleclainche at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > > Could you set your smaller monitor to Y coordinate 600 or something and
> see
> > if
> > > new windows dissapear into the dead space?  Often new windows will appear
> > in 0
> > > 0 which is offscreen for me.
> > 
> > Hi, thx for your answer.
> > 
> > I've tested, with several configurations, and *new* windows do not 
> > appear into the dead space.
> 
> Hm, OK.  That's worth upgrading for (:
> 
> > *But* any application which is *told* to start at 0x0y (ie. gkrellm or
> > the taskbar) ends totally or partially hidden. I do not think this is an
> > abnormal behaviour, even if it's annoying. Did you test with a wm like 
> > fluxbox, which, afaik, handles xinerama quite well ?
> 
> XFCE3 handled this beautifully, while KDE had this same problem.
> 
> =====
> /dev/idal
> "GNU/Linux is free freedom" --Me

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