Re: Panel behaviour under Xinerama

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:58:38PM -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 12:12, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Ideally, the new X.org Xinerama spec would export a setting telling us
> > whether the screen was a single virtual monitor or intended to be
> > multihead-equivalent. However, getting useful things like this out of
> > the current X community is a bit of a nightmare, so the best we could
> > do probably is to document something on freedesktop.org.
> 
> It pains me to suggest it, but perhaps we should add a gconf setting for
> this, since it doesn't look like we'll get this out of X.
> 

We still need to propagate it to non-gconf somehow (standard
gnome-settings-daemon setup as we use for other settings like
this). GTK needs to pick it up, for example.

Having the master setting in gconf would work fine though.

Havoc