Re: need smarter WM window placement with two monitors

Dear Henrik:

Please send me your xorg.conf.

Can I ask which Nvidia card you have and which version of the Nvidia 
driver. I'm running the Nvidia-1.0-7174 because that is the newest one 
that correctly supports keyboard switch back and forth to the console.

Can I ask some specific questions?

I suppose we are following the same Nvidia manual using Twinview.  I'll 
be able to see for sure if you show me xorg.conf.  On my system, when 
the TwinView is running and I use this:

   Option "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" "false"

THen I have mixed success.


1. If you have the cursor bring up the WindowMaker root menu on one 
monitor and you open up many xterms repeatedly, do all xterms "pile up" 
on each other on the same monitor?  I never never see an application 
open on the other monitor. All the xterms pile up on the one monitor.

However, I can drag them from one monitor to the next. That tells me 
WindowMaker's xinerama support is working, but only partly.

2. In the Gnome Workspace Switcher, can you reposition programs by 
dragging on their little symbols in the desktop pager?  I can move a 
program from one workspace to the other, but cannot reposition within a 
single workspace.

3. Does the gnome panel stretch across both monitors?  On mine, it does 
not.


4. The user whose email is [email protected] says that wmsetbg is 
not supposed to scale a background across 2 monitors when WindowMaker is 
in xinerama mode.  On my system, it does not.  I get the same background 
on both monitors.  If I tile a small background, it is tiled separately 
across the 2 monitors.  So the fact that you are seeing one background 
across 2 monitors makes me think there is some mystery.  Did you patch 
wmsetbg?

If I set

   Option "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" "true"

Then I do get one background across 2 workspaces, however, I have big 
window placement problems. THey don't pile up on top of each other, but 
they do get split across the 2 monitors.

pj


Henrik Prinz wrote:
> [email protected] schrieb:
> 

> Yes. I'm running a similar setup, using TwinView with its Xinerama
> extentions enabled. And wmsetbg works perfectly here.
> 
> When i use a Background smaller than 2560x1024 it gets tiled. (Wich is
> perfectly normal, since i use the option -t by default.)
> 
> And when it comes to window and appicon placment, i didn' run in any
> problems yet. (The appicons are placed in the correct screen.)
> 
> 
> 


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