[PLUG] need some xinerama/kde help, please

[Shannon C. Dealy]

On 9 Jul 2002, Ross Brattain wrote:

[snip]
> > But there is some very annoying behaviour that I can't seem
> > to rid myself of:
> >
> > -- If I horizontally maximise, say, an emacs window it
> >    maximises across the _entire_ virtual desktop, which, in most cases,
> >    is the wrong thing to do.
> >
> > -- When the kde screensaver comes up, it is centered in the virtual
> >    desktop not in one of the physical desktops---again the wrong
> >    thing to do.
>
> Unfortunately this is the correct behavior for Xinerama.  It treats
> both heads as one big virtual desktop.
[snip]

Not entirely correct, Xinerama is just the way the X display behaves, it
is your window manager that determines the behavior when you maximize the
window.  What is needed is a Xinerama aware window manager that operates
in the manner you expect, or which can at least be configured to operate
this way.  There are at least two or three window managers which are
Xinerama aware in their more recent versions, and will behave in a
somewhat more correct manner.  I am currently using Enlightenment with my
setup as it seemed to work the best for me (though I think it is one of
the most bloated window managers around), and maximizing a window only
maximizes it on the current display.  I am not sure what the screen saver
does as I use a rather bland one that has no real center point so I don't
know if it is centered or not.  I am currently running it with Gnome, but
I think it is also KDE aware.

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