Gnome application responses to screen size changes

[Łukasz Jernaś]

Dnia czwartek, 12 kwietnia 2007, Keith Packard napisał:
> > Whenever that VGA output gets enabled all of my gnome-panels seem to
> > want to mosey on over and check out all those new pixels, and I have to
> > drag them back to the laptop panel.
>
> That's because the VGA ends up as Xinerama screen 0, which is where
> Gnome always sticks the panel. Reordering the Xinerama screens is
> trivial inside the X server, but I haven't figured out a decent way to
> express that on the wire. It seems like we just need a request to
> reorder outputs in the RandR list, then have RandR use that to order the
> Xinerama screens.

Please do implement it, it would greatly improve the dual screen experience 
with laptops IMHO.


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Łukasz [DeeJay1] Jernaś
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