On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:23:39 Stian Jordet wrote:
At first I used xinerama, but then every application started on the wrong monitor, and when I moved a window to the other monitor, any dialog boxes that this windows might create, will still popup on the first monitor. Did not look very good. So, I disabled xinerama, and this actually works much better. Except that sawfish only starts on my primary monitor. I have to manually start it with --display :0.1 og --multihead to get it on both. This is ok, but I would prefer to get it done automatically. Anyone have any clues?
I don't know if this will help you, but I'll try.I know that some window managers are more xinerama-aware than others; I'm using three monitors with sawfish now and have configured "method of placing windows" and "method of placing dialog windows" to "under-pointer." These can both be found in the Placement section of Sawfish Window Manager, which in my case is accessed via gnomecc.
Even with that setting, some programs just start wrong. Gnumeric, for example. It spreads itself across all three screens. It must size itself as a (large) percentage of the size of my 3072x768 desktop.
That said, I have a question back at you -- with xinerama disabled, can you drag windows from one screen to the other?
I've been having a great deal of trouble with Gnome2 under xinerama. X freezes solid under certain circumstances and the only thing I can do (short of ssh'ing in from another system and killing gdm) is to use the magic sysrequest key to kill all user processes and start over... that, or I kill the power. But I don't like doing that. :-)
I've been reading up on this now and then and it seems to be due to some issue with xinerama support (or lack thereof?) with gnome2 and/or font support under gnome2... I think. If I can multihead without xinerama, I'd like to see if it lets me run gnome2 programs. As it is, I've had to pin back several applications so that they don't upgrade.
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