On Tue, 27.10.09 16:39, Jeremy Visser (jeremy at visser.name) wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 16:05 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > NVidia offers two ways to do it: you can setup the second monitor to be what > > > they call a "separate X screen" ( and that it precisely what I have here ) > > > or a "TwinView" (nvidia-speak for Xinerama ). > > > this is bogus. gnome-panel is xinerama-aware and does not stretch > > panels across to monitors of the same screen. > > You are right, Lennart. Just FYI, TwinView is actually not the same > thing as Xinerama. It is a proprietary and hacky NVIDIA solution to > multiple monitors (been around for yonks -- before Xinerama was in X, I > believe, but you wouldn't have heard of it unless you have had NVIDIA > hardware). Yes, but the nvidia drivers actually implemented the xinerama interfaces pretty early so that clients that are xinerama-aware know where to put their stuff. gnome-panel was xinerama-aware. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
