[plug] dual screens at different resolutions and dragNdrop

[Michael Holland]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006, Daniel Foote wrote:
>
> > Xinerama can handle multiple screens of any resolution - the
> > resolutions don't have to match.
>
> Which window managers cope with this?

Metacity, the default gnome WM, works fine with xinerama and mismatching
sizes.

> I ran a dual-head setup with a 1280x1024 LCD and a 1024x768 CRT.
> I could never quite convince gnome (metacity?) or KDE to not place
> small windows such as dialogs in the "free" space at the bottom of
> my 1024x768 viewport.

Sounds like you were not using xinerama.
There are alternative methods where your two screens are viewports onto
one big virtual screen, which must be rectangluar, hence the dead space.
But xinerama shouldn't do that.