_NET_WORKAREA and Xinerama

Oleg Sukhodolsky son.two at gmail.com
Tue Oct 24 17:06:43 EEST 2006


But results you will have may differ from the area which WM consider
as workarea.

Oleg.

On 10/24/06, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <raster at rasterman.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:06:57 +0400 "Oleg Sukhodolsky" <son.two at gmail.com>
> babbled:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to know workarea, but it looks like it doesn't work well for Xinerama :
> > (
> >
> > I've found couple discussions on this subject:
> >
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2003-March/msg00003.html
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2004-March/msg00000.html
> >
> > So, are there any plans to enhance the spec to work well with Xinerama?
>
> personally i think workarea is not that useful - "work area"(s) can be
> calculated FROM known obsctacles on screens (like panels, etc. etc.). all you
> need is a way of providing virtual obstacles.
>
> > Thanks, Oleg.
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