Re: struts, workareas and xinerama

Lubos Lunak <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.wm-spec
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

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Lubos Lunak
KDE developer
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