Re: [RFC] _NET_WORKAREA and Xinerama

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:27:51PM -0800, Rob Adams wrote:
> We will probably want to make explicit in the spec that struts apply
> only to the xineramas that the window setting the strut actually
> overlaps.  So edge panels on one xinerama would set a full-width strut,
> and the window manager would take this to mean a strut across that
> particular xinerama.
> 
> So partial-width struts would only be used for corner panels.
> 
> Does this sound sensible to people?
> 

To me, the reason we used struts instead of "do not cover" was to keep
the extents of the window from affecting the strut, e.g. for panels
that hide or whatever. So I think it's kind of strange to make struts
per-xinerama.

If partial-width struts are the solution, I think panels should have
to be xinerama-aware and set them explicitly partial-width matching
the xinerama heads.

Havoc