--- era eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Scott Anderson <ee_in_co <at> yahoo.com> writes:
> > I read a previous post a month or so back about Xinerama problems. My
> > setup is similar in that I currently have a dual-head with mismatched screen
> > resolutions. Left screen is 1600x1200, right screen is 1280x1024. I'm in
> > the
> > process of getting a card that can dual 1600x1200 on both screens. It will
> > be
> > interesting if my problem goes away.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sawfish/+bug/49740 indicates that
> same
> size on both screens probably doesn't really matter.
>
I have now updated my graphics card so now I have 1600x1200 on both screens. I
have seen the
problem again, but only once. Matlab was the program I was running, and 'close
all' would cause
problems... I haven't run Matlab in a while, which may explain why the problem
has not shown up
as much.
> Could it be that Sawfish is simply mapping the windows to weird coordinates so
> that they are not on the current viewport? In that case, you could probably
> move them with a bit of sawfish-client hacking.
>
> Let's say the missing window is the Gnome Panel:
>
> vnix$ sawfish-client
> sawfish 1.3, Copyright (C) 1999-2000 John Harper
> sawfish comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the file COPYING
>
> Enter `,help' to list commands.
> user> ;; try to find a regex which matches exactly only the missing window
> user> (get-window-by-name-re "gnome panel")
> user> ;; nothing
> user> (get-window-by-name-re "panel")
> user> ;; still nothing
> user> (get-window-by-name-re "Panel")
> #<window 1200031>
>
> user> ;; gotcha! let's store a handle to this one
> user> (setq panel (get-window-by-name-re "Panel"))
> #<window 1200031>
>
> user> (window-position panel)
> (0 . 0)
> user> ;; we speculate you'd see something really weird here
>
> user> ,describe move-window-to
> Native Function: move-window-to
>
> move-window-to WINDOW X Y
>
> Move the top-left corner of window object WINDOW to (X, Y).
>
> user> (move-window-to panel 0 0)
> user> ^D
> vnix$
>
> Does this help at all?
>
I'll certainly follow these steps next time the problem happens. Gnome-panel
is one of the
programs that disappears frequently.
Scott
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