xfdesktop woes

[Brian J. Tarricone]

um.... how is this useful to me?  i think the semi-broken multihead 
support is somewhat irrelevant at this point, especially since it needs 
to be redone for xinerama anyway.  not to mention the fact that 
xfdesktop has bigger problems.

    -brian

Olivier wrote:

>Brian,
>
>Last time I checked, ie a week or so ago, multihead support in xfdesktop
>was broken in that it was causing an warning and did not display the
>backdrop on the second head (something about the size of the pixbuf
>being negative or something)
>
>I did the test with Xnest which could be a potential cause of problems
>by itself though :)
>
>Cheers,
>Olivier.
>
>On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 10:43, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>  
>
>>Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>
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>>
>>>my current version that i'm working off of is here:
>>>http://spuriousinterrupt.org/xfce4/files/xfdesktop-20040529_working_nomh.tar.bz2
>>>
>>>note that this version doesn't "work" in that it won't draw a backdrop 
>>>for you.  well, it could, but i haven't updated the settings panel, so 
>>>there's no way to set the backdrop.  the previous version, which is 
>>>basically a feb 12th cvs snapshot, plus the backported menu, is here:
>>>http://spuriousinterrupt.org/xfce4/files/xfdesktop-20040529_b0rked_mh.tar.bz2
>>>
>>>i'm really out of ideas.  i'm not sure if i expect anyone else to 
>>>figure anything out, but if anyone wants to play with it, you're 
>>>welcome to it.
>>>      
>>>
>>note i got that backwards - the first one is the version that works in 
>>that it doesn't cause apps to crash.  it doesn't have multihead support, 
>>and pretty much all it has beyond 4.0.x is the new menu system (plus 
>>menueditor).  the second version is the version that i'm happy with 
>>design-wise, and has multihead support, but causes apps to crash.  this 
>>one is the one that won't draw a backdrop because there's no way to set 
>>the settings for it.
>>
>>    -brian
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