Re: need smarter WM window placement with two monitors

Paul Johnson schrieb:
> With an Nvidia dual-head display, I have some inconvenient experiences
> with WindowMaker.  Most prominently, new windows that are created in the
> center of the display are split between the two monitors.  I wish Window
> Maker could somehow know that I have 2 monitors and stop starting
> programs in a way that straddles the 2 monitors.

Did you compile WindowMaker with --enable-xinerama?

> I'm using the Nvidia Twinview configuration, so the 2 1280x1024 monitors
> are seen as one single monitor 2560x1024. Window Maker scales the
> background images all the way across both monitors.

Do you have the Xinerama extension in your xorg.conf enabled?

Henrik
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