On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:15:27PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > I too use Xinerama in Blackbox, and have some difficulty understanding > the frequently voiced viewpoint that Blackbox's Xinerama support is > broken in some way. There is nothing broken concerning Blackbox's > current Xinerama support.
I haven't used bb with xinerama, but i believe that there are certain "common-sense" issues which bb does not address when used with xinerama. when you maximize a window currently in bb, i believe that the window spans both screens? (this is not correct behavior) also, i don't think that bb addresses the "dead area" issue, when xinerama is used with monitors of different resolution: if you have a monitor running at 1280x1024 and one that runs at 800x600, non-xinerama aware wm's see the screen as one big rectangle, ignoring the fact that part of it cannot be used. (since the second monitor is much smaller.) both of these "issues" are discussed in the xinerama howto at linuxdoc.org. my 01 > The idea behind Xinerama is simple, to make multiple physical screens > function as one logical screen. Thus, it should be possible (and is > under Blackbox currently) for items, that would normally appear anywhere > on a single physical screen, to open anywhere on the one (Xinerama > provided) logical screen. Even if this means that it opens partially on > two different physical screens. > > What is currently being proposed, is a patch to create artificial > boundaries (that in this case happen to coincide with the physical > monitor sizes) that items should not cross. While this may sound like a > nice feature, that's all it is. It has nothing to do with Xinerama (if > you don't believe me check with the developers, I have). So, please > take it at what it is, a patch to add artificial no-cross boundary > generation to Blackbox. > > I see no need for patches of this nature to be included in Blackbox. > > Jamin W. Collins
