[openbox] dual-head

[Benedict Brown]

At least with ATI's binary drivers, xinerama only works with both screens 
at the same resolution.  Since my laptop display is much higher resolution 
than most external monitors, let alone projectors, that's very 
inconvenient.

Benedict

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, John Russell wrote:

> I run xinerama at work and I really like it. What is the advantage of
> running dual heads without xinerama?
>
> John
>
>
> On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 01:21:20 -0500, Dave Foster <daf at minuslab.net> wrote:
>> I use a similar setup (mine involves minor trickery to get fbpanel to
>> work with the desktop setup properly), and I've not really experienced
>> any kind of problem like you've described here.
>>
>> I'd still like to see openbox eventually get to manage multiple
>> (non-xinerama) heads, but it works fine for me now.
>>
>> dave
>> daf at minuslab.net
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 18:01 -0700, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
>>> On ven, 2004-12-03 at 19:29 -0500, David Courtney wrote:
>>>> This works for me.
>>> -snip-
>>>
>>> Do you not have problems with focus switching between windows in
>>> different monitors or root-context bindings?
>>>
>>> The biggest problems I've had with the above setup is:
>>> - windows on different monitors fighting over the focus, resulting in
>>> windows "flickering" as they trade the focus back and forth until one
>>> (randomly) wins)
>>> - actions such as show-client-menu, when triggered on one screen,
>>> popping up a menu on the wrong monitor.
>>
>>
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