Re: struts, workareas and xinerama
Lubos Lunak <[email protected]>
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On Wednesday 13 of June 2007, Dana Jansens wrote: > Secondly, I am in need of some clarification in terms of struts with > Xinerama. In the above example, say an application set a strut on the > "right side" with a length of the 1st monitor. Where exactly does > this strut reside? It could reside entirely on the first monitor, it > could reside on the second monitor (and the nowhereland above it) or > it could be split between the two monitors. > > I expect there is no answer to this question, which is frustrating > because this is a real-life setup that one of my users has talked > about recently. Perhaps _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL is just not enough, and > needs to be able to specify the monitor as well as start/length. Correct. The strut hints talk about desktop (root window) edges, so they don't support reserved areas "inside". That basically matches _NET_WORKAREA, so if you want to extend one, you probably want to do the same with the other one. -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: [email protected] , [email protected] Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 972 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http//www.suse.cz