Re: [RP] xinerama: one big frame

[Kevin Geiss]

thanks for the info.

now that I've used it a little more, I think I really like having a 
frame on each monitor. I tried out kde with xinerama too, and having a 
window split between the two screens is really annoying.

On Oct 15, 2004, at 10:11 PM, Trent Buck wrote:

> Quoth Kevin Geiss on or about 2004-10-15:
> > so I just got xinerama going. it works fine with one frame on each
> > screen. has anyone gotten one big frame which spans two screens? in my
> > case, the screens are different resolutions so it probably wouldn't
> > work well anyway, but I was wondering if it's theoretically possible.
>
> Conceptually, a Xinerama screen is a single logical screen, with
> different areas visible on each monitor.  Cameron's Xinerma patch
> caused ratpoison to treat each monitor as a separate screen, but lets
> you move windows between them because of the underlying Xinerama
> screen.
>
> Ratpoison <<1.3.0 doesn't have Xinerama support, so it (ratpoison)
> just sees the single virtual screen.  If you run one of those earlier
> versions you'll get one big frame.  Alternately, fire up a window
> mangler that doesn't support Xinerama, such as aewm.
>
> -trent
>
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