-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:41:53AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > I've just set up a dual head system (Matrox G450, RHL8.0, Metacity, > Xinerama) and I don't find it comfortable. Why? [SNIP] > 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. AFAIK, this can't be made to work the way you want it to, at all. I.E. you can't drag windows across the two different displays. There's a really cool program called x2x (see http://freshmeat.net/projects/x2x/?topic_id=861 ) that lets you drag your pointer across two displays (and control apps on the two displays with one keyboard/mouse), but not windows. > 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. This is your only realistic option. Xt/Xaw apps let you use X resources or command-line switches to specify the geometry of applications, which includes the location of the window. AFAIK, neither gnome nor KDE support this, which is really unfortunate, and which I found rather shocking, given that X applications have supported this for (almost litterally) decades. So, if you're using lots of gnome or KDE apps, then I think the only solution is for you to just deal. You might try a different window manager -- FVWM has a number of features (various placement policies, different window styles that control where an app starts, etc.) that may or may not be useful for that purpose. But aside from that, I think by and large you're going to find that they generally try to stick new windows where they'll interfere least with existing windows. - -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+FV2/HEnASN++rQIRAvyfAJ0eGPLSUr2XbhguiJi4DI+uyVisRwCgnP0n WjZZoDaXXsugVjoGX8eWQK0= =hn1E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
