xfwm4 + Xinerama

Ori Bernstein rand_chars at rogers.com
Sun Oct 17 15:19:57 CEST 2004


On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:35:56 -0400
Ori Bernstein <rand_chars at rogers.com> dared to utter:

> I see. Would it be possible to use the offset from a corner of the current
> monitor (maybe from the bottom-right corner), which would perserve the
> unmaximized position relative to the monitor, rather than relative to the
> entire screen(sorry, I don't know much about X programming, and am still
> learning, so I'm not sure if it's possible.)
> 
> Also, is there any chance metacity's handling of dragging maximized windows
> could be implemented?
> namely, the way it keeps the window maximized to the current monitor's
> resolution when dragging between monitors, rather than preserving the size of
> the window.
> When working with Xinerama, esp. with monitors running at different
> resolutison, this gets very very very useful.

Comments? Suggestions? 
Can anyone either say
"Go ahead and try to implement this, and we'll see" (and give me a pointer to
some documentation), or at least say "we dont' want this braindead feature in
xfce"?



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