Re: need smarter WM window placement with two monitors

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:05:34 -0600
Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> 

note that Window Maker Xinerama, follows your mouse :) and the head
the mouse happens to be in.  its smart like that.  I do suppose it could
be smarter and keep track of workspace surface usage...

i have a keyboard shortcut set to start a terminal, and i have a three head
configuration.  i use the mouse to set the "head focus" and the xterm will 
open in that head.  Window Maker will manage each single head the same way 
it always has.  I like that :)

> 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 

you can call me Carlos :) 

> 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?
my patch makes wmsetbg ignore Xinerama head configuration and sets one big bg.
its only available if wmaker has been compiled with xinerama support.  
and it will only be noticed if xinerama info is provided.

if xinerama info is provided and there is "no patch" then wmsetbg bg will 
loop through the heads in the xinerama info structure and set the same bg with
its flags on each head (this usually takes a lot longer to load too...)
> 
> 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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