Well, the nasty thing about Metacity is that it is (in the words of the devs) a crack-free window manager. Meaning it has no breakable features that nobody really needs. Except for now, ofcourse... =) I have ran into this before, perhaps i should move to openbox. Openbox and gnome should play nice right?
Thanks, Geert Charles Mauch wrote: >Greetings from Tacoma, WA, USA, a Wasteland of Burning Tires, Geert! >On Wednesday, November 30, in the 2005th year of our Lord, you wrote: > > > >>I have been experimenting for a while now and i can not find out how to >>solve this. >> >>The situation: >> I have two 'monitors' (one CRT and one TV) as seperate X displays >>like this: >> >>Section "ServerLayout" >> Identifier "TV_plus" >> Screen 0 "Default Screen" >> Screen 1 "tv_screen" rightOf "Default Screen" >> InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" >> InputDevice "Configured Mouse" >>EndSection >> >>this gives me two X displays: 0.0 and 0.1 >>however, i find it impossible to tell gnome (actually, metacity) to only >>use 0.0 and leave 0.1 (the tv) alone. >> >> > >I don't use gnome or kde, but I had a similar setup. I work with a >dual-head display, and output a third display to my tv for (mostly) >watching movies. > >What I did was a bit of a hack, but seemed to work. In my .xinitrc, I >fired up e16 with the -s <screen> -d <display> options, which allowed me to >fire up two instances of enlightenment on my monitors and prevented >enlightement from trying to launch an instance of itself for every display >available. I then started up ratpoison on the tv monitor, which worked >great because I didn't need anything but a single fullscreen terminal to >control mplayer. > >I imagine metacity has an option to disable it's display detection and >insist it only run on one display as well. > >Now I use a different configuration, where I have seperate xorg "layouts" >and different mice/keyboard attached to the layouts. This allows me to use >a seperate wireless/trackball combo as a remote for the "TV", and >enlightenment manages the dual-head monitor setup on it's own without a >fancy x init script. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >arch mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
