Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 25 Sep 2001, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
>
> > You need to introduce windows looking like the background to obscure
> > the parts of the window spanning the second monitor. It's hard to get
> > the window stacking order right, I think. Consider two windows, one
> > at each side of the monitor chasm. It seems impossible to do to me.
>
> Why would you want to do that with Xinerama? That's
> traditional multihead behavior. Just don't run Xinerama and your
> problem is solved.
Basically, to be able to move applications from one window to another,
you need xinerama. Because you cannot move open clients from one
X screen to another.
But this is still (mostly) a windowmanager issue, and to answer
Kjetil's issue: Xinerama provides support for placing each
monitor/screen at an absolute X/Y value in X's coordinate space. So
this should be possible by positioning each monitor with "sufficient"
space to the other monitors. Then the windowmanager needs to warp
windows between the visible areas of the desktop, as well as warp the
cursor whenever it leaves a visible area.
An extension to allow the windowmanager to reconfigure the Xinerama
layout on the fly might be nice, but it's not really neccessary except
as to allow this to work without editing the server configuration
manually up front... :)
-Harald
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