Re: need smarter WM window placement with two monitors

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

>>
>>4. The user whose email is [email protected] says that wmsetbg is 
> 
> 
> you can call me Carlos :) 
> 
Ah, Carlos. Nice to meet you
> 
>>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...)

I have to conclude that Nvidia TwinView is inherently incompatible with 
your patch.  Your patch makes my situation somewhat worse because after 
wmsetbg is rebuilt with it, then I can never have the panorama 
background across monitors.  Whether  Twinview is giving the xinerama 
info  or not, ie ,

    Option "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" "true"
or
    Option "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" "false"

it does not use the scaled panorama background.  The two monitors are 
separate.

Without the patch, I can at least set it at true and have WIndowMaker 
see the background as one big 2560x1024 background.

I suspect the problem with TwinView is that WindowMaker never realizes 
it is supposed to be in xinerama mode until after it has started.

Now I'm going to try to reconfigure the X server not to use TwinView, 
but rather the basic Xinerama, and find out if that makes a difference.

I'd still LOVE to see the xorg.conf files from dual-head Nvidia users 
who are able to make everything work right!

pj

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