[plug] dual screens at different resolutions and dragNdrop

[W.Kenworthy]

Xinerama doesnt handle different screen geometry well.  It stretches the
wallpaper across the screen, but you have a "dead" spot that you cant
use (in gnome at least).  So whats the point of having different screen
sizes if you can only use the area in common (768 in the Y, and 1280 in
the X - when running 1360x768 internal LCD, and external 1280x1024
external LCD)?

I have just tripped up on a show stopper in any case: any attempt at
starting ooffice (critical app for me!) crashes both X, and some of the
OS requiring a hard reboot. :(

Back to a single common screen res which is 1024x768, which looks really
crappy due to aliasing on the external LCD.

BillK

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 11:53 +0800, Michael Holland wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006, Daniel Foote wrote:
> >

> 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.
> 
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