tir, 2003-03-11 kl. 04:00 skrev Shaun Crossley: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:23:39 Stian Jordet wrote: > > > > At first I used xinerama, but then every application started on the > > wrong monitor, and when I moved a window to the other monitor, any > > dialog boxes that this windows might create, will still popup on the > > first monitor. Did not look very good. > > > > So, I disabled xinerama, and this actually works much better. Except > > that sawfish only starts on my primary monitor. I have to manually start > > it with --display :0.1 og --multihead to get it on both. This is ok, but > > I would prefer to get it done automatically. > > > > Anyone have any clues? > > I don't know if this will help you, but I'll try. > > I know that some window managers are more xinerama-aware than others; I'm > using three monitors with sawfish now and have configured "method of > placing windows" and "method of placing dialog windows" to > "under-pointer." These can both be found in the Placement section of > Sawfish Window Manager, which in my case is accessed via gnomecc. > > Even with that setting, some programs just start wrong. Gnumeric, for > example. It spreads itself across all three screens. It must size itself > as a (large) percentage of the size of my 3072x768 desktop. > > That said, I have a question back at you -- with xinerama disabled, can > you drag windows from one screen to the other? > > I've been having a great deal of trouble with Gnome2 under xinerama. X > freezes solid under certain circumstances and the only thing I can do > (short of ssh'ing in from another system and killing gdm) is to use the > magic sysrequest key to kill all user processes and start over... that, or > I kill the power. But I don't like doing that. :-) > > I've been reading up on this now and then and it seems to be due to some > issue with xinerama support (or lack thereof?) with gnome2 and/or font > support under gnome2... I think. If I can multihead without xinerama, I'd > like to see if it lets me run gnome2 programs. As it is, I've had to pin > back several applications so that they don't upgrade.
As I said, a had plenty of troubles with xinerama, so many I didn't bother. Multihead is ok with me, I cannot drag windows between screens, but I don't really need that. (Ok, it would have been nice, but not worth all the downsides with xinerama). So the only problem I have is that screen 2 don't have any window manager, I have to start it manually... That's the issue I'm looking for a solution for. Regards, Stian
