Once upon a time Nick Hastings said... > > I think you missed my point: I don't use xinerama nor do I want to. > I'm using a dual head setup with a *single* matrox card. > > What I want is to somehow have my window manager or desktop > environment to behave as described in chapter 9 of the xinermama howto.
I dont think you're being very clear. You seem to be saying you want the features of xinerama, but not use xinerama. If you want to move windows between heads, then you want xinerama. If you want the features listed in the xinerama faq, then you want xinerama. Why do you say you do not want xinerama? I see you emphasised the word *single* above. It make no difference whether you have a single dual-headed card or two separate video cards. You would be able to use xinerama with both setups. Perhaps that is causing you confusion. If you already have a working XF86Config-4 setup with two heads as separate screens (:0.0 and :0.1), you should simply be able to add Option "Xinerama" "true" to you ServerLayout section. It is then a matter of whether or not your applications recognise xinerama (if they need to). I am not familiar with the window manager you mentioned in your previous mail, so I dont know how well that supports xinerama. Unfortunately, some applications are not xinerama aware and they do something like get the size of the root window, calculate the middle and explicitly place a window at that position. This ends up being on both monitors. I dont know if a xinerama-aware window manager can do anything about this. ssh-add(1) had this problem. I dont know if it has been fixed, but it was enough for me not to use xinerama - particularly since I have no real need to move windows between screens. I think you just need to experiment a little and make sure the apps you want to run will work well with xinerama. For most, it wont matter. For others, they'll be xinerama-aware and behave according to the guidelines in the FAQ you referenced. Others will not. I run a dual-headed matrox card (G400), but I dont use xinerama. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
