Re: New Multi Monitor Behavior is Odd

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com> wrote:

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 20:59 -0400, Mystilleef wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Congratulations on the release of GNOME 3.
>
> GNOME Shell behaves odd on my multi monitor setup. When I switch
> workspaces the screen on the external
> monitor remains the same. I expect the external monitor to share the
> same virtual workspace as the primary
> monitor. Is this behavior intentional? Or is this a bug? Or did I
> screw up my xrandr settings?

It's intentional. Only the primary head gets workspaces, the secondary
head just has the same stuff on it all the time. You do get an
'overview' for the secondary head, if you put more than one window on it
you'll see this more clearly.
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You can change the behavior using gconf-editor and going to /apps/mutter/ and setting workspace_only_on_primary to false I believe.  You might have to change the actual schema.. 

sri