On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:22:00 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: [...] > >> That is a single X11 screen spread across two physical monitors. It > >> will not exhibit the gtk-3 selection bug. > >> > >> Are you sure you have two desktops and it's not just a single desktop > >> that is spread across two monitors? Can you drag a window from one > >> monitor to the other? If you can, then it's a single desktop. > > > > Yes, I can. > > When I maximize a window, it's only on 1 screen. > > > > This is how it seems "right" to me. > > > > Why would I want it to be different? Eg. windows can't be moved between > > screens? I don't see the point of having more than 1 screen in that case. > > There's a few reasons you might want more than one screen. Primary one > is two heads and two video cards with different resolutions and dpi. > Xinerama and big desktop et al will use the lower setting for both.
Another reason (e.g. my case) is one dual head video card, but monitors with different dpi and colorspace. I tried xinerama: it looks really ugly on such setup. One more reason already mentioned by Grant is true for my case too: in my window manager (e16) I can have independent desktops on each screen, but not in xinerama mode. Probably this can be fixed in software, but might require a lot of work. JFYI dwm allows independent work on xinerama screens, but I have another issues with dwm. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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