Re: Question About Geometry Settings and Dual Displays

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, [email protected] wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am testing rdesktop 1.7 on Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard, it compiled and
> runs just fine but I have a question regarding geometry settings and dual
> displays.
>
> We have many laptop users that sometimes use their machines with and
> sometimes without an external monitor. I found that if I send the command
> "-g 90%" for instance I can get rdesktop to take up 90% of the available
> screen. This works great until I initiate it on a dual display system, then
> it seems to treat both monitors as a single monitor and spreads the window
> across both screens. Is there any way to specify that I want rdesktop to
> use just 90% of the primary display when running on a dual display system?

No, not yet. When using a percent figure, rdesktop calculates the size 
from HeightOfScreen() and WidthOfScreen(). These returns the combined size 
on Xinerama systems, and apparently OS X as well. To get the individual 
screen sizes, rdesktop would need to use the Xinerama or Randr library 
calls. Some people might prefer the current behaviour though; a new
command line syntax may be necessary.

Rgds, 
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