prelimiary xfdesktop multi-screen support, crashing bug fixed

[Jean-François Wauthy]

Le lun 19/04/2004 à 06:44, Brian J. Tarricone a écrit :
> hi all-
> 
> i reworked a bit of xfdesktop so i can move toward supporting people 
> with multiple screens.  by this i mean multiple logical screens on a 
> single X display, via :0.0, :0.1, etc.  my plan for people that run 
> multiple displays is that you'll need to run multiple instances of 
> xfdesktop.  i'm not sure how this relates to xinerama as i have no idea 
> how that works (yet).
> 
> as an intended side-effect, the app-crashing bug appears to have 
> disappeared.  my guess was that it had something to do with the global 
> |XfceDesktop xfdesktop| variable, and it appears i was right.
> 
bad news, firefox still crashes here (i only updated xfdesktop perhaps,
there was another thing to update)

> i _really_ need feedback from people with multiple screens.  currently, 
> things aren't very useful.  settings from the desktops on different 
> screens will overwrite each other in not-terribly-useful ways.  i know 
> how to fix this, it's just a matter of actually doing it.  also, i'm 
> betting that the windowlist and app menus won't work properly, because 
> they keep around a local copy of only a single NetkScreen (right now, 
> it's the NetkScreen of the last desktop initialised).  this is fixable 
> as well, but it's just something i need to do.
> 
> basically, xfdesktop now creates and paints a fullscreen window for 
> every screen present, and it'll put the same backdrop image or color on 
> all of them.  if people have any links to any documentation or 
> information that might be useful about multi-screen stuff, i'd 
> appreciate some pointers.  as you might guess, i don't have a 
> multi-screen setup, so i have no idea if the stuff i do actually works.
> 
> so, that's my major accomplishment for the night.  well, that and 
> cleaning up my resume and writing a few cover letters.  whoopie do, how fun.
> 
>     -brian
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Jean-François Wauthy <pollux at xfce.org>
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