[compiz] compiz works really strange with external monitor

[Danny Baumann]

Hi,

> Maybe the following description would help a bit to find a reason ?
> I have similar example. It wasn't always like this, it started in the past after one of upgrades of compiz (months ago, I think shortly after beryl-compiz merge). It may be also due to upgrade of Xorg (from 1.2 to 1.3).
> 
> The virtual size of my screen is 1280x1024, display resolution is 1024x768. When screensaver is started it usually displays only on part of the screen (of size 1024x768 or a bit smaller), like on the following "sketch":
> 
> +----------------.----+
> |screen 1280x1024.    |
> |     +----------.----+
> |     |          .    |
> |     | screen saver  |   ..... dots mark out boundaries of visible area
> |.....|...........    |
> |     |  <= 1024x768  |
> +-----+---------------+
> 
> However sometimes (rarely) screensaver starts on the whole 1280x1024 area. I could not find any rule.
> 
> The result of the mentioned xinerama test is always the same:
> Head 0: num 0, Origin 0 0, Size 1280 1024
> 
> It happens with different kinds of hardware and in different Linux distributions.

Let me guess: all of those distributions run KDE? ;-)
If yes, it's not a Xinerama problem, it's a problem inside KDE's
screensaver that was fixed with KDE 3.5.8.

Regards,

Danny