[openbox] Dual monitors in openbox

[Dana Jansens]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Kameron <flyordie2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> You were right about the lxpanel part. I don't know that it can recognize
> dual monitors, so I switched to xfce4-panel. That solved that issue.
>
> Now about openbox, I'm still having the issue with the dead space. Perhaps I
> set something up wrong, which is very possible. How would I go about fixing
> this?

Dead space will happen with Xinerama if the monitors are different
sizes, because the root window (desktop) in X is always a rectangle.
So if I understand you correctly, there is nothing left to fix..
Unless your issue is something other than the dead space existing.

Openbox won't place new windows inside the dead space, it knows about
it (if it does there is a problem). You can still move stuff into it
if you want to, like you can move things off of a monitor.  There's no
reason to stop that.


> On Sep 11, 2010 9:24 AM, "Andrew Gallant" <jamslam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The first part of your problem sounds like you might be experiencing some
> dead area[1]. I didn't think this was a problem in Openbox, but maybe I'm
> wrong.
> The second part of your problem I don't think is related to Openbox. It's up
> to lxpanel to recognize a multi monitor setup. Tint2 has support for
> multiple monitors (as does the panels in KDE and Gnome).
> [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinerama#Dead_space
> - Andrew
> Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito
>
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>> > Hi all, I am currently trying to set up a second monitor in openbox
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