On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 17:46, Marius Nita wrote: > Xinerama was implemented to "increase screen real estate" for those who have > more than one monitor on the same machine. If you have two monitors, you > should be able to put them both on the same machine, and move apps between > them, or put part of an app in a screen, and part in the other. For example, > one of my coworkers keeps his email program on his small screen, and does his > work in the other. Another coworker, who uses adobe golive, keeps the source > code window in the small screen, while working visually in the other. If he > needs to tweak some source code, he moves the mouse to the source window and > does that. This is on Apple machines, mind you. What do you do when you work > with apps like Kdevelop, which have a whole bunch of small panels popping > everywhere, and half of them pop in the small screen, and half in the other > screen? Isn't it normal that kdevelop should set itself up in the screen that > you start it in? It would on all other operating systems that implement > dualhead. Apple's dual head does not allow popup windows to go willy nilly all > over the place, it knows about dead areas and does not place windows in them, > etc. If xinerama support included all of that, you would not be bitching right > now. Because you're used to something working the wrong way, and you're > terrified that it may be fixed. But rest assured, you can disable the stuff.
You appear to be confusing Xinerama and DualHead. They are different. > I'm not sure why you're clinging so hard to this. Let me guess. You have 2 > monitors that are exactly the same size, and you keep them right next to each > other. The fact that people would have two monitors of the same exact size is > rare. And if you do have different sizes, how to you like it when windows are > placed where you can't see them? or can only see part of them? If your monitors are not the same size, use DualHead not Xinerama. Xinerama has one purpose, to make multiple screens function as one large screen. > But i'd hate it if perfectly good code didn't make it into blackbox because of > some disgruntled group of users who like to argue for the sake of arguing. Not a case of arguing. It's quite simply a case of an unnecessary feature (aka bloat). It has been pointed out previously on the list that everything you're looking for is provided via DualHead (with the exception of moving apps between monitors, but you didn't list that as one of your gripes). So, don't use Xinerama (it doesn't do what you want), instead use DualHead. Jamin W. Collins
