On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Brian J. Murrell <br...@interlinx.bc.ca> wrote: > On 13-01-09 09:12 AM, Sam Spilsbury wrote: >> Hi Brian > > Hi Sam, > >> Support for one instance managing multiple screens was removed in >> 0.9.0, > > Oh, that's a pity.
It introduced too much maintenance overhead. Every plugin had to be aware of the multi-screen case and the APIs functioned around multi-screen, even though very few people use this configuration. > >> but I think you can manage more than one screen by using >> separate instances as you've done. > > Yeah. It does work. Seems less efficient though having two instances > of compiz and decorators running. Also, configuration options are not > shared so you end up having to configure them both individually with the > same settings. > >> I'm not sure what the state of multiscreen settings are. I don't think >> they have been supported for quite some time. In my opinion, we should >> probably just remove that dropdown. I don't think there's a very good >> usecase for having per-screen settings, especially now that we have >> one compiz instance per screen. > > However that's resolved, having to copy configuration from one instance > of the configuration manager to another, especially when you are not > allowed to run one on each screen, side-by-side, is more than just a > little annoying. :-( They should be shared between the two screens. I'll file a bug about it so I remember to get to it. > > Thanks for the info. Appreciate your time. No problem. Glad to see you are getting the most out of compiz. Best. > > Cheers, > b. > > > > _______________________________________________ > compiz mailing list > compiz@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz > -- Sam Spilsbury _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
