Xgl and Xinerama

[Michel Dänzer]

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 07:54 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 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. 

I guess I'm not sure why you'd re-invent Xinerama in this way but not
use it in the first place.


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