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.
>
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