New panel on dual screens and productivity

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Sat Oct 1 23:46:41 CEST 2005


Jean-François Wauthy wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I installed the new panel some days ago and i must say : wow ! (good job
> jasper) but it's far from ready for multihead usage : taskbar is the
> same for the two screens and you can't add the pager (which is the same
> too when you force it) and the most annoying thing the popup menu only
> appears on the screen where you started the panel...
> 
> I attached a patch to allow multiple instances of the pager (which seems
> to work fine, why this restriction ?) and fix the popup menu issue. I'm
> not too familiar with the new panel code (i haven't finished to read all
> the mails about it yet) so i hope i did it the right way.

The use of xfce_gdk_display_locate_monitor_with_pointer() doesn't look
right here. It would be better to query the screen from the widget which
received the event (gtk_widget_get_screen()).

Benedikt



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