On 02:41 03 Jan 2003, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> wrote: | I've just set up a dual head system (Matrox G450, RHL8.0, Metacity, | Xinerama) and I don't find it comfortable. Why? [...] | I'd like to have most stuff happen on my main monitor, but be able to | drag widows to the other monitor. I don't know how to make this | happen. I can think of two ways, neither of which work. | | 1) Don't use Xinerama. Then the two screens become different devices | (i.e. DISPLAY=:0.0 for one and DISPLAY=:0.1 for the other). The | fundamental problem is that you cannot drag a window between | devices, as far as I know. Correct. | 2) Use Xinerama. The two screens act as if they are one. This just | doesn't match my reality (me, the human part of the system). | The most problematic feature of metacity is that its logic always | seems to create new windows on the screen I'm not using. In fact, | it creates them on the far end of the screen I'm not using. | | The second approach looks to me (not an X programmer) easier to fix. | I'd like to be able to tell Metacity to create windows in my primary | screen. I would guess that programming this would be easy; a suitably | general design would be needed. | | An even better approach, based on (2), would be if the two screens | could be used to show separate workspaces. I have no idea if this | fits the structure of the X code. Or... don't use metacity. I use FVWM. Things mostly work how I want under Xinerama. It has an assortment of placement policies you can use, and many tuning features. Your second choice is to ask on the metacity list (is there one?) for someone else using Xinerama. You may also want to look into setting up your X defaults to give most things preferred locations and so forth. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 cs@zip.com.au http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. - Hume -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
