[openbox] dual monitors with different heights

Jozef Riha jose1711 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 09:39:58 EDT 2009


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

>
>> is this a task X or openbox should handle this?
>
> X, definitely.
>
> -- Johan
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