Bug#443690: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#443690: xfwm4: wrong display chosen in multi-head setup when using startup notification
reassign 443690 xfwm4
found 443690 4.4.1-3
thank you
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>> I've been running xfce4 for awhile now using a multi-head disply
>> configuration (:0.0 and :0.1, no Xinerama). Most of my menu items have
>> "Use startup notification" checked. Up until a recent update (I assume
>> the update to 4.4.1-3 today when I ran an update), this wasn't an issue
>> as any application I would start up would end up displaying on the
>> display from which I clicked on the menu item initially.
>>
>> Now, however, when I try to open an application from the menu
>> which has startup notification enabled, the application always starts on
>> display :0.0 even though my mouse and the menu itself is displayed on
>> :0.1. Unchecking the option in the menu editor allows all of the
>> applications I try to open on :0.1 to show up correctly on that
>> particular display.
>>
[...]
> Anyway, dual-head and xinerama are dead now that xserver 1.4 is out, it's
> replaced by randr 1.2 (not for every drivers but...).non-xinerama dual head is
> dead completely, AFAIK, so it may be your problem. Maybe your driver isn't
> randr-aware but there was some changes in the xserver.
>
The window manager takes care of placing windows, so I am reassigning back
to xfwm4.
Mark, please describe precisely your X config (which xserver-xorg-core,
which
driver, which dual-head config in xorg.conf, ...).
If you're using a RandR 1.2 driver (Intel 2.x, ATI 6.7.x, mga 1.9.x or
nv 2.1.x on a G80),
the problem is probably that xfwm4 doesn't know yet how to use multiple
RandR 1.2
outputs.
If using a old-style dual-head (with independent :0.0 and :0.1 screens,
without
a way to move windows across them), then xfwm4 seems to have problems
managing these multiple screens. But I don't see what could have broken
xfwm4 recently. Even with xserver 1.4, it should just work the same for
old-style
drivers (while it doesn't work anymore with RandR 1.2 drivers). I am waiting
for more information from Mark about this.
Brice
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