Re: Xinerama and gnome-control-center problems?

["Carl B. Constantine" <carl@os-s.com>]

On 2/6/2001 13:06, Hamish Moffatt at hamish@debian.org wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:27:42AM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote:
>> On 2/6/2001 00:32, Hamish Moffatt at hamish@debian.org wrote:
>> 
>>> The whole idea of Xinerama is that your entire desktop is one display,
>>> right? So how can gnome-control-center display the image on just one
>>> display?
>> 
>> I have no idea, but that's exactly what's happening. Take a look at this:
>> 
>> http://members.home.net/duckwing/xinerama.jpg
>> http://members.home.net/duckwing/xinerama2.jpg
>> 
>> I contacted the author and he thinks he knows where the bug is but doesn't
>> run dual-head himself to check.
> 
> Are you sure that it's not just tiling it, to avoid stretching it?
> 

I'm not sure what is going on. I installed Enlightenment today and told
gnome not to set the background, instead used E. Same problem:

http://www.pobox.com/~duckwing/xinerama3.jpg

Not sure what's up. It's a bug somewhere but not sure where. It must be in X
or the MGA Driver code or something. Not sure. I have some new MGA code that
I need to try so I'll do that and see if it still happens.

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