On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Noah Slater wrote: > Related to this is another question. When using Ion is there anyway to > make Ion obey or "snap" to the edges of each screen? If you have two > display next to each other, it is not desirable to have an Ion window > span across the displays. (Well, not for me anyway! :)) > > I tried to drag the segments out so they neatly fit the window edges, > but it jumps (or snaps) around, not letting me absolutely possition > them.
No experience of xinerama, so I may completely miss what's happening, but AIUI X applications can specify a `quantised' resize step. This is so that things like xterm's where the natural spacing is a character cell ensure they only ever have to deal with complete characters in their windows. I think that when dragging an internal division between frames in a workspace (which is presumably what's happening in xinerama) Ion obeys the minimum resize step of the currently active application in the frame whose border you're dragging. So if you're trying to resize with a window containing something like xterm or emacs, try putting something less character cell based (e.g., mozilla) as the active window in it and see if this allows for pixel-level resizing. Might work, might not. -- __cheers, dave____________________________________________ homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/dtweed/ tel: +44 131 651 3447 JCMB, Kings Buildings, Edinburgh fax: +44 131 651 3435 X wrote a book about this, which Y was carrying around for a long time with little discernible effect -- John Baez
