xfwm4 version 4.6.2 does not work with Xinerama?

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at gmail.com
Thu Oct 14 10:26:43 CEST 2010


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Jelle de Jong
<jelledejong at powercraft.nl> wrote:
> On 10-10-10 13:55, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>> Sorry that does not make any sense to me.
>>
>> Xrandr is not a driver, why are we talking about hardware?
>>
>> xfwm4 does not deal with hardware, never. And support of xrandr is
>> about the same between xfwm4 and metacity.
>>
>> I am attaching a simple utility that reports the current layout,
>> please build it and run it on your system, then post the results.
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libdlo/2010-October/000767.html
>
> The above URL is a good post that explains my problem. Xrandr is not
> possible and Xinerama is depreciated.
>
> # without Xinerama enabled and displays in wrong set-up
> $ ./enum-displays
>
> This display has 2 screens.
>
> Screen 0:
>  Name:  :0.0
>  Size: 1440x900
>  1 monitor connected:
>    Monitor 0: 1440x900+0+0
> Screen 1:
>  Name:  :0.1
>  Size: 1440x900
>  1 monitor connected:
>    Monitor 0: 1440x900+0+0

Ok,  that's 2 independent screens, you cannot move windows between
independent screens (well, you can, gtk has a feature for screen and
display migration, but that's something that needs to be implemented
in the application itself, not the window manager).

Cheers,
Olivier.



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