maximized windows cover bottom panel in dual monitor configuration

[Emre Erenoglu]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

OK, I will file it.

> 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.
>

Ah that wouldn't be practically good since I can suspend my computer at work
with 2 monitors,  resume in a train with the laptop lcd only, suspend again
there and resume at home with 2 monitors. I can't close all applications
that I'm working on to restart X.

I think this is a typical use case of a laptop user.

Many thanks,
-- 
Emre
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