It's not Xinerama support per-se, it's more like Xinerama awareness. I can understand your concerns with adding artifical boundaries in Blackbox but there is a problem when Blackbox decides to pop up a window in a part of my screen that doesn't exist (it can do that if the situation is right: I have two screens with two different resolutions and on the screen with the smaller resolution I have a window that's bottom bar is at the border where the screen no longer exists. Suddenly I have a window that I can't see or get to, but Blackbox tells me it's there). At the same time it is very difficult to read menus across screens and windows shouldn't be popped up across displays either.
Personally I believe a window manager should be smart enough to place windows properly, artifically calculated or not. On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 20:15, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 21:13, Jason Chu wrote: > > I have some code to add Xinerama support to Blackbox... (still waiting > > for the cheering to die down). For those of you who don't know what > > Xinerama is it allows multiple monitors to be used as a single monitor. > > The problem is things like Blackbox placing windows across window > > borders and menus spanning windows and things like that. > > 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. > > 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 >
