Re: [Notion-general] mod_xinerama

[Juri H. <ju...@fa...>]

On 06/29/11 at 12:44pm, Michael Kockmeyer wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to use notion in my multihead-setup but it does not what it is
> supposed to do. If I deactive xinerama it behaves as expected with one
> workspace for each screen. But I want to move windows from one screen to
> another so I installed mod_xinerama (and activated xinerama of course),
> but in fact it does nothing. It behaves just as is was not installed.
> (or at least I cannot notice any difference), but it is for sure since I
> get an error if I deativate it in the x-server. There is a area i cannot
> access in the left monitor (since it's 26 pixels smaller) and also I
> like the "fixed" as if the 2 monitors where 2 X-Screens.
> Any clues/fixes, or have i missunderstood the usage of mod_xinerama?
> 
> Michael Kockmeyer

Do you start just _one_ X server and notion handles the two screens
without mod_xrandr nor mod_xinerama loaded as two seperate workspaces?
That's something new to me. 

AFAIK, usage mod_xrandr is encouraged for static or dynamic multihead
setups. However you need a graphics card driver which has randr support.
I had no luck creating two seperate workspaces on two monitors with
proprietary nvidia driver, since it doesn't fully support randr.  I also
had no luck to make notion handle each monitor as a workspace with prop.
nvidia driver's twinview and mod_xinerama activated.

mod_xrandr works for me with nouveau driver on an nvidia machine and on
my mobile intel graphic chip (with dragging xclients from screen to
screen).  However, dragging with mouse will work only from tiled
workspace to any, but not the other way, from a floating workspace to
another (IIRC, there's an issue reported on notion issue tracker. But
you still can use tag/attach way to move frames between any workspaces.

You can get mod_xrandr here:
https://github.com/raboof/mod_xrandr-3

Hope it helps.
Regards,

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Juri Hamburg
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