maximized windows cover bottom panel in dual monitor configuration

[Nick Schermer]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Emre Erenoglu <erenoglu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Emre Erenoglu <erenoglu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Dear Developers,
>> >
>> > I have a notebook screen and a separate monitor.  I usually use my
>> > notebook
>> > attached to this external monitor (1680x1050), which sites above the LCD
>> > of
>> > the notebook (1280x800) and configured as such with xrandr:
>> >  $ xrand
>> > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1850, maximum 8192 x 8192
>> > LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+1050 (normal left inverted right x axis y
>> > axis)
>> > 304mm x 190mm
>> > VGA1 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>> > 433mm x 270mm
>>
>> Your laptop screen is below the external monitor, this means the panel
>> cannot set struts on this edge (because struts are relative from the
>> screen edge). So either but the laptop screen above, left or right of
>> the external monitor or use a setup with 2 screens.
>
> Hi Nick,
> Thanks for your mail. Putting the laptop somewhere else wouldn't be suitable
> for me from an ergonomics point of view. This is the most ergonomic way to
> work with two screens for me.  Windows XP shell is able to cope up with this
> pretty well, is there something we could do for XFCE? Not everybody puts
> their monitors side by side and it's generally not possible to put laptop
> screen above the external monitor :)

Well, that's how it's implemented in the window manager spec, not much
to do about this. you can file a bug against xfwm4 at
bugzilla.xfce.org.

> Could you elaborate a bit more what you mean by a setup with 2 screens? How
> can I achive this with xrandr or xorg? Please note that this shall be
> configurable on the fly since laptop is sometimes connected to work external
> monitor and sometimes home external monitor and sometimes its laptop screen
> alone. I was using xrandr when I change locations to readjust the screens.

That depends on the card, but that won't work with xrandr, you need to
restart x to apply this.

Nick