On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:50:10PM -0700, Joe Schmoe wrote: > I have three monitors, and X is tricked by my matrox > driver into thinking it is just one big 3840x1024 > monitor.
Ion works much more nicely with Xinerama, i.e. Matrox's 'independent mode'. You can define workspaces for each screen and switch between them independently. Downside is you only get hardware acceleration on one monitor. A workaround might be to run two X servers; one in independent mode for serious work, and one in merged mode for games, etc. ... > If I alt-tab to the right-most monitor, and move the > mouse across the physical screen divide into the third > monitor, then it gets stuck there again when I alt-tab > to the first one again. I had a problem a just like this once caused by a program called xte, which fakes input using the XTEST extension (feels like X keeps separate absolute and screen-relative coords for the pointer and it's possible for them to get out of sync). I assumed the problem was with xte, but it doesn't seem like anything in your X client setup (including Ion) should care about multiple monitors since you're not using Xinerama. So I suspect that you're looking at an X server or driver bug (mine's Matrox also) rather than an Ion one. -- Jamie Webb
