[compiz] compiz works really strange with external monitor

Danny Baumann dannybaumann at web.de
Tue Feb 5 04:35:25 PST 2008


Hi,
 
> I've been aware of this issue for about a year or more now, 
> but never really considered it a bug. Like  Danny sais in the 
> cf bug report [1], it's totally wm-dependant how to treat this issue.
> 
> However, I believe it makes sense for Compiz to have an 
> option to ignore outputs that are completely overlapped by 
> larger outputs, as this makes a lot of sense. It also 
> shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Should this really be an option? I mean, there's already the possibility to
manually force the outputs by simply disabling "Detect outputs" and
specifying them manually for circumventing such strange Xinerama
information.

Regards,

Danny



More information about the compiz mailing list