question or bug report.

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Wed Sep 17 22:55:48 CEST 2003


Well, we are about to release 4.0, so there will be no fix until 4.2

An easy simple (and somehow useful) fix would be to show the taskbar
twice, on both screens (like GNOME panel does)

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 22:50, Gustavo H. C. wrote:
> ok, I'm not starting taskbar, and this are solving the problem.
> if you make a fix for this problem, please comment in changelog or here.
> tnks to this very very excellent wm.
> - Gustavo
> 
> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 
> >The problem is fairly complex and not that easy to fix.
> >
> >Using partial struts would maybe help, but that's neither supported by
> >the taskbar not xfwm4 (partial struts appeared in EWMH 1.3)
> >
> >By simply changing your screen layout, moving the right display a few
> >pixels (or even a single pixel) down would fix it.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Olivier.
> >
> >On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 19:40, Gustavo H. C. wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>using twinview, the taskbar resides only on the left display, thats
> >>ok.
> >>
> >>the taskbar is toplevel, and no window can be positioned on top, thats
> >>ok too.
> >>
> >>the right display restricts the window position to not put any window
> >>at taskbar location, thats wrong.. it makes some area on right display
> >>unusable, because right display does not have a taskbar, but only a
> >>positioning restriction making a blank margin.
> >>
> >>I'm using a GeForce-4mx440 with last nvidia driver that supports
> >>twinview and xfce4-rc4.
> >>
> >>tnks a lot.
> >>- Gustavo
> >>
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