On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 09:19 +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008 08:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Yrbgol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > > Hello, > > > > I am not sure that the title makes sense but here is my problem: I've > > two monitors connected to my CentOS 4.4 desktop. My graphics card is > > nvidia (GT 7300??). I used to run gnome before and I had my first > > monitor as the master and in the second monitor I could drag windows > > but it did not have a taskbar and it was using the first monitors > > taskbar. So, when I change my virtual desktop, both monitors used to > > change. Now, I am using E17 and it has two different desktops. Both > > has their taksbars and I can drag a window from one to the other. > > However, both have their own virtual desktops. I know this is a good > > feature but I could not find it useful and It confuses me while using > > my computer. > > > > How can I start enlightenment so that the same virtual desktop spans > > both monitors? I searched a lot and could not find an answer to my > > question. I've found someone mentioning "enlightenment -single" as a > > hidden option but that did not work as well. > > > > I am using CVS version of enlightenment. > > you can't. enlightenment does not work that way. each screen gets its own > desktop - so you can't have the same desktop across both (without e losing all > knowledge of there being 2 screens at all). so.. get used to it :) (same > answer > u'd get from the gnome guys for the reverse - each screen having its own > desktops that work independently).
IIRC you could fake it by compiling E without xrandr support (i.e. that's E losing all knowledge of there being two screens), and still use xrandr. That creates one huge desktop spanning both screens... but, why would you want that? *g* Honestly, better get used to it.. sylvester ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
