Re: dual head inconvenience

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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/
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