Re: Dual-head with one head rotated?

["Daniel German" <dmg uvic ca>]

Having read a lot of modules recently  the easiest way to implement
this is to define a phantom
window that covers exactly the area you don't want to use, and set the
property of that
window such that it is one of the "avoided" windows (avoided-windows).

I dont' know what is the property the window has to have. The GNOME
panel has such property.
Perhaps looking at the definition of avoided-windows.

Otherwise it will require some major rewriting.

--dmg

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Omen Wild <omen+sawfish mandarb com> wrote:
> I have two questions about using sawfish with dual monitors, but with one
> rotated.  I have a 1680x1050 LCD hooked up to the DVI port of an Intel
> 965Q on a Dell Optiplex system.
>
> I have a 1280x1024 LCD hooked up to the VGA port.  I added 'Virtual 2704
> 1280' to the SubSection "Display" part of my xorg.conf and ran the
> following command:
> xrandr --output VGA --auto --rotate left --right-of TMDS-1
>
> This pulled up the second display rotated (woohoo!) and the speed of
> the rotated display is even pretty fast (double woohoo!).
>
> The problem is that sawfish thinks the screen is a square of 2704x1280
> pixels, and will happily place and allow windows in the dead zone in
> the bottom left, i.e. in the xxx's of this bad ascii art:
>  __________________
> |           . 1024 |
> | 1680 x    . 1280 |
> | 1050      .      |
> |           .      |
> |___________.      |
>  xxxxxxxxxxx|      |
>  xxxxxxxxxxx|______|
>
> Is there some way to convince sawfish that the x'd out part really does
> not exist and it cannot use it?  I would even be willing to hand edit
> some source and custom compile if it would fix the issue.
>
> Second question, is there a way to make the edge between the two screen
> (the vertial part with the dots) act as if it is the edge of a window,
> so when you move windows (or send windows with the 'Corner upper right'
> command in <http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Corner>) they stop at the
> intersection of the two screens?
>
> The OS is Debian/unstable fully up to date:
> ii  xserver-xorg             1:7.3+14                 the X.Org X server
> ii  xserver-xorg-core        2:1.4.2-2                Xorg X server - core server
> ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.3.2-2                X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver
>
> Many thanks!
>   Omen
>
> --
> Virtual means never knowing where your next byte is coming from.
>