Re: [Evolution] Xinerama

[Dave Euser <dave_euser yahoo com>]

You could always just run 2 seperate screens....not quite as nice, but
Xinerama doesn't just crash evo for me - my whole box dies (no time to
figure it out).....this way I've got evo/galeon on the larger monitor,
and the secondary is a couple xterms, gkrellm, gnomeicu, etc.

On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 21:05, Geoff Beaumont wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 14:48, Ian Stuart wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 14:12, Geoff Beaumont wrote:
> >
> > > I guess that's as good a place to start as any...what should we be looking 
> > > for.
> > > Anything related to the basic X system, obviously, Gnome libraries. Anything
> > > else?
> > OK here we are:
> >
> > Dual PII-450 with 385MB Ram. SCSI & IDE disks.
> Nice! ;c) 
>
> Duron 750MHz, 256Mb RAM. IDE disk. 
>
> > 2.4.13 Kernel (my configuration)
> 2.4.12 Kernel, also home brewed. Just installed a stock DW 2.4.13 kernel
> - no change, so I guess we can rule that out. I'll roll a new one when I
> get time. 
>
> > X 4.0.3 (no DRI);
> 4.1.0-9 from Debian Woody. Currently no DRI 'cause I forgot to compile
> it into the last kernel...but the G450 won't use it in dual head mode
> anyway. I'm not going to try downgrading this - I never managed to get
> DRI working on 4.0.2 
>
> > E 0.16.4; 
> 0.16.5-4 (DW) - but I get the same problem under other window managers,
> so we can rule this out. 
>
> > glibc 2.2.4
> 2.2.4-3 (DW) 
>
> > Gnome (all ximian versions):
> > -libs 1.2.13
> 1.4.1.1 (DW) - that looks like a possible candidate. Just rolled it back
> to gnome-libs-data 1.2.13-ximian.11. Subjectively, may have made it
> worse - in any case it's made gdm decidedly wobbly (although it
> satisfies its dependencies..) so back to the DW version.
>
> > -core 1.4.0
> > -print 0.31
> > gtk+ 1.2.10
> All same. 
>
> > Evolution 0.99.2-ximian.3
> Evo 0.99.2-ximian.2 
>
> This appears to be the latest version packaged for Debian. 
>
> > Mail is accessed via IMAP.
> Ditto - from both local network and a remote (and at times slow) server.
> Just run an upgrade which installed quite a few Gnome libraries from
> Debian Woody, haven't time to test it properly today, but it's already
> crashed once in Xinerama, is running very nicely on a single screen, so
> apparently no change.
>
> I noticed on the Ximian FTP server the Debian Woody Ximian Gnome
> directory doesn't contain Evo, only the Potato one, so I guess they're
> only building it for that at the moment (which is fair enough - Woody's
> a bit of a moving target. Leave that to the Debian package maintainer.) 
>
> Sure enough, my apt-sources file lists a stable archive - there doesn't
> appear to be a copy of the Woody debs set up as a Debian archive.
>
> I guess I'm just going to have to live with it for the time being -
> dillema: Evo or Xinerama...
>
> Now that says a lot about how good Evo is - there aren't many things I'd
> give up the second monitor for...
>
> Cheers. 
>
> -- 
> Geoff Beaumont
> Geoff stormhammer com
>
>
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