Multihead fixes for the Panel - from my point of view

[Joao Pedrosa]

Hi,

On 10/30/05, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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> Joao Pedrosa wrote:
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> > Ok, what I did:
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> > - I have reverted back the changes for the multihead support that Jasper
> > introduced at around 23 of October;
> > - I have made the Panel ignore the monitor configuration of the Panel
> and by
> > default it will always use the DISPLAY environment variable, thus the
> Panel
> > is working like any other app which is great because it's always working
> the
> > way it should IMHO.
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> I really really *really* think this is the wrong way to do this. Just
> because the current way isn't working properly doesn't mean you should
> go for the ugly method of running one panel process per screen. For
> example, xfdesktop uses the one-instance method, and works fine with
> multihead.
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> The proper way to do this is to *fix* the problems, not use icky
> workarounds.
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Maybe you are right. But I wouldn't want to see 4.4 released without
multihead support. "Xnest" is "good", but maybe it's not close to two real
monitors. Gnome and KDE have good multihead support and I see that Xfce
strives to have an even better support, but Xfce is more of a community
effort than the other two. And this has been my effort. :-)

Cheers,
Joao
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