Re: Sawfish and dualhead
On 2003.03.10 21:00 Shaun Crossley wrote:
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.
The latest libgtk2.0 packages re-enabled Xinerama support (see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=177318) so now GNOME2
and GTK2 apps should work fine with Xinerama. I'm not using sawfish,
though, so I don't know the state of its Xinerama compatability.
Metacity and openbox (the last two WM's I used, both with
freedesktop.org window manager spec compliance) both work fine with
Xinerama.
GTK2 also understands plain multihead now, I believe.
As for fonts, see the other recent discussions on this list.
James
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