Question related to twinview nr 4 (answer to Danny)

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 2/1/2006 2:00 PM, Marcel Maier wrote:

> I hope, you read all my emails related to this problems before ...  this is 
> the 4th one :D
> on the 2nd Email I posted 2 screenshots to show how the things have changed 
> all of a sudden
> though.
> 
> here the Output for xdpyinfo:
> 
> http://extreme.homeunix.net/Xfce4/output_xdpyinfo
> 
> if you search form the other files: (screenshots)
> 
> http://extreme.homeunix.net/Xfce4/
> 
> I just hope everything turns back normal as before ... else .. it would 
> prolly force me to use another
> window manager :/ and tbH I liked Xfce4 very much

- From your xdpyinfo output, it looks like X is telling xfdesktop that you
have one single screen that's 2048x768.  nvidia's TwinView option does
some funky things and maybe doesn't inform X that it's actually two
displays merged into one screen.  Or maybe it does, but at this point
it's irrelevant.

My only conclusion is that something changed with your X upgrade, or
possibly nvidia driver upgrade.  xfdesktop has not changed *at all* in
how it handles backdrop layout in the 4.2 series.

As I said before, do this:

1.  Open your backdrop image in an image editor.
2.  Resize the image to your single screen size (1024x768, I assume).
3.  Save the image.
4.  Open Xfce's backdrop settings.
5.  Set the new image you just saved.
6.  Set the image style to "Tile".

That will bring you back to having a single non-stretched copy of the
image on each display.  I'm sorry it's not super-easy and xfdesktop in
4.2 is not always so smart about your monitor configuration, but it's
probably at least partially nvidia's fault.  So please stop whining and
either listen to what I said the first time (and now this time), or just
go ahead and use another desktop environment.  Really, your silly
"threat" to use another DE if you don't get your way does not impress me
in the least.

	-brian

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