question or bug report.

Gustavo H. C. gustavo at overstep.com.br
Wed Sep 17 23:01:53 CEST 2003


ok, make sense too.
is hard to make an option on config file to allow this?


Olivier Fourdan wrote:

>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:
>>
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>>
>>>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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