Re: Sawfish and dualhead

[Stian Jordet <liste@jordet.nu>]

tir, 2003-03-11 kl. 04:00 skrev Shaun Crossley:
> 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.

As I said, a had plenty of troubles with xinerama, so many I didn't
bother. Multihead is ok with me, I cannot drag windows between screens,
but I don't really need that. (Ok, it would have been nice, but not
worth all the downsides with xinerama).

So the only problem I have is that screen 2 don't have any window
manager, I have to start it manually... That's the issue I'm looking for
a solution for.

Regards,
Stian