xfwm4 version 4.6.2 does not work with Xinerama?
Olivier Fourdan
fourdan at gmail.com
Fri Oct 8 16:01:24 CEST 2010
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:
> On 08/10/2010 15:18, Jelle de Jong wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> Does anybody got Xinerama workign with xfwm4 version 4.6.2 on Debian SID?
>
> Yes, altough I think you mean “randr 1.2”.
>>
>
>> I am having the following behaviour when xorg configured with an
>> Xinerama set-up:
>>
>> My second monitor is configured as bellow the primary screen so I drag
>> windows from above to below trying to get them on the second monitor.
>>
>> Dragging a window to the second monitor (Xinerama) works partially, the
>> window will go as far the top border. It wont go any further! For a
>> large windows playing video this means the video can be dragged to the
>> other screen until the top border hits the bottom of the first screen.
>>
>> This feels like some kind of bug in the wm to be but I cant find any
>> information about it...
>
> I can confirm this, but I'm not sure it's xfwm fault, it seems that the
> panel placement will greatly influence that. Basically when there's a
> panel on the path it something fishy happens, so it might be related to
> xfce4-panel.
>
> But yeah, afaict, it only happens in a vertical screens placement with
> an horizontal panel between them (wether on the bottom of the top screen
> or on the top of bottom screen).
Panel is incredibly bugg ywrt to Xinerama support, I have to restart
it each time the layout changes here,
Cheers,
Olivier.
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