Panel on SVN does not seem to be working with multihead 100%

[Joao Pedrosa]

Hi,

On 10/20/05, Foxy <foxy at on-the-hill.me.uk> wrote:
>
> Joao Pedrosa wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I'm new around here and I'm new on using XFce, but I like what I see,
> > both in the community and in the current state of XFce.
> >
> > I've been using Ubuntu for over a year, and since then, GNOME has been
> > my main desktop, but I like the proposed lightweightness of XFce,
> > which could come in handy.
> >
> > For two days I've been messing around with XFce from SVN and now I've
> > learned a little bit about it already. I've even created a little
> > script to install it on Ubuntu, and I'm sharing it with you, but
> > please use it to learn from it only, don't try to use it in a
> > production machine. :-)
> >
> > Now about my problem. :-)
> >
> > The new panel is great and seems good enough for me to use it already.
> > But on my main machine I have two monitors that I use in dual-head.
> > I've been using dual-head for as long as I have used Ubuntu. The only
> > big issue with XFce for me is that the new panel does not reappear on
> > the right screen when the session is restarted, even though it behaves
> > as if it was in the right screen.
> >
> > I know the code is still evolving. I can wait for the final version.
> > So take this as an incentive to think about the multihead issue of the
> > new panel. :-)
> >
> > Great job guys.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Joao Pedrosa
> >
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> Hi Joao, i cannot help you with your problem, sorry. Bu I have a
> question about your script. I wonder if it is possible to use
> checkinstall instead of 'make install'. I run Ubuntu as well and I would
> like to be able to remove svn build as soon as 4.4 is out. I guess it
> would be easier if it is built with checkinstall, then I will just use
> apt-get or Synaptic.
>
> There are a number of xfce-svn scripts are around but they all obviously
> use 'make install'. The problem with checkinstall is that it is sort of
> picky. It does not like spaces before version number and other things.
> You may try to replace 'make install' in your script and will see that
> building of deb packages fails in most of the cases. It is something to
> do with spec file I guess. Though it is not a case when you download
> snapshot tarballs and checkinstall them. I wonder if you may have some
> ideas about it?
>

You pose an interesting question. Maybe when I have some more time I will
try such an approach, because at the moment I don't really know much about
it, sorry.

Cheers,
Joao
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