Re: Gnome on SunBlade 100

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

James Henstridge <james daa com au> writes:

> Ritenour, Steven wrote:
> 
> >Hi All,
> >   I just installed Gnome 2.0 (Sun's beta release) on my SunBlade 100 running
> >Solaris 8.  My machine has 2 heads on it and I understand 2.0 supports multiple
> >monitors, but I'm only getting one to come up.  The 2nd one appears to be half
> >working as I can drag my mouse pointer to it, but the screen is blank and
> >doesn't respond to any mouse clicks.
> >
> The multihead support didn't make it into GTK+ 2.0, and instead has
> been retargetted for GTK+ 2.2 (which is basically just 2.0 plus
> multihead and a few fixes; it is already nearing maturity).  Multihead
> support is targetted at GNOME 2.2 at the moment (which will include
> GTK+ 2.2), but it is likely that some distributors (such as Sun) may
> distribute versions of gnome that include gtk+ 2.2 and some gnome 2.2
> components (such as panel and nautilus multihead features).

Actually, multihead support was never targetted at 2.0; it
was always scheduled as a 2.2 feature.

FWIW,
                                        Owen