At 1265550390 time_t, Adam Nielsen wrote:
> Hmm, well apparently not in version 3.4.3!

I do use it everyday. :)

> I thought this was the
> latest version but the multimonitor support in it seems to be really
> poor - if I load a program from a terminal in screen #1 with the
> mouse on screen #1 it always appears on screen #0, stuffing the
> layout around, and trying to drag the app across to screen #1 is
> quite difficult because it flickers all over the place (seems to
> jump between floating and fixed) making it hard to see where its
> current position is.   When you finally get it across to the other
> screen, if the mouse strays off the edge of the screen while you're
> resizing and moving it, the window jumps back to the size of screen
> #0 (which is about 10x larger than I was trying to shrink it to.)
> Maybe I'm not supposed to use the mouse to drag windows... (old
> habits die hard)

You can but that is a bit buggy. Mod4+o helps.

> I also can't run the Psi IM client on screen #1 because although I
> can move and resize the window, I can't click on anything, it's like
> it has frozen.  I have to kill it from a terminal and restart it on
> screen #0 before I can use it.  (Or rather restart it and leave it
> on screen #0, since I can't actually start anything on a screen
> other than #0.)

Sounds like a X problem rather than a window manager one.

> There are lots of other issues too - although MPlayer windows are
> supposed to be full screen you can still see the taskbar/tags/clock
> at the top of the movie, and if you enable title bars on windows
> they randomly disappear when you switch tags and suddenly reappear
> when you focus the window again.
> 
> I'm not giving up yet, hoping that I can come up with workarounds
> for these issues, but I'm afraid the 'awesomeness' is quickly fading
> ;-)

Do you really use Xinerama or some proprietary driver with proprietary
bugged options ? :-/

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