Re: Using 2 monitors

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Federico Di Gregorio <fog initd org> wrote:

Anyway, my question has to do with using 2 monitors (that, especially in
the case of a laptop + external monitors, can be of different size). The
usability problem I see is that the lower right corner, used to popup
notifications, isn't a corner anymore and hitting the correct region
with the mouse is quite difficult (almost impossible unless you have
pixel-perfect control). I know that you can hit Super and go to overview
but the change of bahaviour depending on the number of connected
monitors is definitely bad.

Hello Federico,

This was resolved in Fedora by using zones.. basically, they've modified X such that if you go to the bottom corner on the left monitor to the notifications bar, it won't let you go to the right monitor so you don't have to have great accuracy to see the notifications.  I unfortunately cannot find the bug where this was discussed.

If you're using Ubuntu I do not believe that is implemented yet.  I know for sure it is in Fedora 15.  Can't speak for OpenSUSE.

sri