[openbox] dual monitors with different heights

[Bernhard Stoeckner]

On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:39:58 +0200
Jozef Riha <jose1711 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Johan Vromans<jvromans at squirrel.nl>
> wrote:
> > Jozef Riha <jose1711 at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> hello, i'm using an X configuration with dual monitors: a laptop
> >> screen and external monitor. vertical resolution of external
> >> monitor is 1024, laptop is only 768. so i set virtual size to 1024
> >> (greater value). in effect however on a laptop screen i get an
> >> invisible area 256px high. is it possible to restrict mouse cursor
> >> from entering this area (same as windows does it)?
> >
> > I hava a similar setup (1600x1200 next to 1280x1024). The pointer
> > never goes anywhere where it is not on the screen. E.g. when it is
> > at the bottom of the big screen, and I move it horizontally into the
> > smaller screen, it appears at the bottom of the smaller screen.
> > It never disappears.
> 
> i'm very interested in your xorg.conf, hardware (drivers) as well as
> any eventual scripts (xrandr?). cheers, joe

Hi,

I suspect the blank area comes from using xrandr.  On a similar setup,
I had the same issue - on another setup with multiple heads that use
xinerama, the pointer behaves like wanted.

Regards.