[compiz] compiz works really strange with external monitor

[Valent Turkovic]

On Feb 7, 2008 11:39 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 10:16 +0100, Danny Baumann wrote:
> >
> > > > > "metacity doesn't know what is the full screen resolution"
> > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431302
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you please look at it and say if this looks like a compiz, X,
> > > > > gnome which bug :)
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > From users point of view it definitely is a bug and should be fixed.
> >
> > It _is_ a bug, and definitely should be fixed - but IMO not inside
> > Compiz. Compiz can work around this, but then you have fixed
> > maximization, but still broken panels, because panels place themselves
> > and rely on Xinerama as well (e.g. gnome-panel via Gtk -> Gdk which
> > calls XineramaQueryScreens).
> > Do you want to have workarounds in all X11 clients out there that use
> > Xinerama? I'd rather disagree to that ;-)
> > I still think there are only two valid locations to fix this: either the
> > driver to not report a weird head configuration, or the X server to
> > filter out weird configurations.
>
> Well, it's not so much a 'weird configuration' as a faithful
> representation of reality. :) What to do with this information is policy
> and thus not up to the X server.

I sent an email with info regarding this bug on intel driver mailing
llist with links to bugzilla links but nobody responded to that email
:(

Valent.


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