Re: Panel behaviour under Xinerama

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Mark McLoughlin">

> > Perhaps each panel ought to have "span displays" prefernce, available
> > only when Xinerama is present? It would probably be better to figure out
> > a "just works" behaviour...
> 
> It struck me that something like Metacity's maximising behaviour on
> Xinerama would be appropriate (don't expand, expand to just this monitor,
> expand to the full screen) i.e. its a tri-state thing when Xinerama is
> available ...

Maybe I'm missing an imporant use case of Xinerama, but I'm not sure I can
think of an occasion on which I'd want a window maximised across the entire
multiple screen area. The tri-state sounds ooky. I should delve into
bugzilla to find out what the impetus for this was. :-)

- Jeff

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