Re: Panel behaviour under Xinerama

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <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. :-)

A large virtual screen / video wall / cave ? Well, ok, so you run out of
pixels if you try for a cave & immersion related software supports mutiple
adoptors. But basicly any application of multiplexing the bandwidth to
RAMDACs / displays.

> 
> - Jeff
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	Sander

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