[compiz] compiz works really strange with external monitor

[Artur]

W dniu 2008-02-05 09:25, Danny Baumann pisze:
> 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.
> 

Ouch! You are right. Thanks for for the tip :).

Cheers.
Artur