Re: New Multi Monitor Behavior is Odd

[Mystilleef <mystilleef gmail com>]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>> --
>>
>
> 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
>


Thank you. I'll see if I can adjust to the new behavior. If I can't
I'll revert back.