Re: [RP] Xinerama question

[Martin Samuelsson]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:50:59PM +0200, Grégoire Favre wrote:
> > There is something in the FAQ about Xinerama too.
> 
> I had also tried this, but xine still think it has the full widht to
> open with, also firefox, xterm... all apps.
> 
> I have this in my .ratpoisonrc :
> 
> unbind c
> bind c exec xterm -sl 2000 -fn 
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 -bg black -fg white +ls 
> frestore 0 0 0 1920 1200 0 0,1 1920 0 0 0 0 0
> 
> Is that supposed to exclude my second screen ?

It's supposed to setup your frames to the sizes of your physical
screens. However the FAQ seems outdated, the argument format has
obviously changed, at least when running towards CVS. Try running the
following commad instead: (or putting it in your .ratpoisonrc)

ratpoison --command 'frestore (frame :number 0 :x 0 :y 0 :width 1920 :height 
1200),(frame :number 1 :x 1920 :y 0 :width 800 :height 600)'

Making a frame with the geometry 0x0 would only be weird. Nothing would
be visible in it, but the screen would still be handled by the window
manager. You would have to work on lower levels to actually make the
screen unmanaged by ratpoison.

Would it be technically possible to have a window manager running on
only one screen when using Xinerama? Are there any other WMs that does
it?
 
> Sorry, I should have mentioned earlyer I what I had tried.
> 
> Thank for your answer,

Sorry if it wasn't too helpful. :/  I've never seen a real life Xinerama
installation, what I know...
--
/Martin