[openbox] Dual Head Problem

Hanni Ali hanni.ali at gmail.com
Mon Jan 8 08:45:27 EST 2007


I've only ever used Xinerama for dual head I find it very effective
and openbox works perfectly with it.

Hanni

On 08/01/07, Dave Foster <daf at minuslab.net> wrote:
> It's not a "problem" per se.. each other wm that runs on both a dualhead
> (normal) setup and a xinerama setup are specifically coded to support
> either one, and openbox's internal architecture is not designed to
> handle this situation and would require serious reworking (at least i'm
> pretty sure that's exactly what Mikachu said).
>
> I've run dualhead with two instances of openbox for over 2 years without
> much fuss, so I'm sure most people can deal with it.
>
> dave
>
>
> Jackson Robertson wrote:
> > I was having the same issue with openbox, which is why I still use
> > fluxbox, pekwm has the same problem as openbox. They seem to only work
> > with xinerama but not with dual screens, have no idea why. I think
> > every other wm works just fine with multiple screens expect these two
> > and if I remember right icewm. Hopefully some day they can fix this as
> > its the only reason I don't use openbox.
> >
> > Jackson
> >
> >
> > m6 wrote:
> >> I current have 2 screens setup, i can scroll onto the other screen but
> >> Openbox doesn't seem to be running on that screen. I just switch from
> >> fluxbox, which was working. If there's some option i need to pass to
> >> have Openbox run on both screens?
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>


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