Xgl and Xinerama

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 12:19 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 11:44, David Reveman wrote:
> > I don't think there's that many apps that are xinerama aware. Except for
> > the window manager, most apps will work just fine without the xinerama
> > info available. Some xinerama compatibility thing could be created if
> > necessary.
> 
> All GTK+ apps are Xinerama-aware at some level: menus and other pop-ups
> won't cross a xinerama limit for example. Maybe Xgl/Compiz should take
> advantage of that and declare its rotating cube as 6 xinerama screens,
> to have windows crossing 2 faces behaving correctly ? (I don't know if
> it's even possible).
> 

The only information needed on the client side for this support is
just the monitor geometries, ie a list of rectangles. It should not
be hard to make that information available somewhere, e.g. a root window
property. 

Matthias