New panel on dual screens and productivity

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Sun Oct 2 09:18:10 CEST 2005


Jean-François Wauthy schreef:
> Hi
> 
> I installed the new panel some days ago and i must say : wow ! (good job
> jasper) 

Thanks!

>but it's far from ready for multihead usage : 

Yeah, I definitely could use some help with that. Taskbar, pager, 
executing programs, I expect there to be lots of problems.

> 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.

Looks fine (the updated patch) and the pager issue was just that I 
forgot to remove the X-XFCE-Unique key after testing it ;-)

> 
> As some of you probably have seen i'm not as present and productive as i
> would like to be; it's mainly due to the new academic year and its load
> of work (and this one is a fucking big one); i hope i'll have time to
> improve xfprint, the menueditor and to help jasper fixing the panel on
> multihead.

Thanks,
	Jasper



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