Re: [Notion-general] mod_xinerama

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

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Subject: Re: [Notion-general] mod_xinerama
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On 06/29/11 at 03:13pm, Michael Kockmeyer wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 29.06.2011, 13:46 +0200 schrieb Juri Hamburg:
> > 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. 
> Yep, works quite nice. Now i have uninstalled mod_xinerama and it's nearly what i want.
> 
> 
> > 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.
> I use (and want to keep on using) the proprietary nvidia driver, so i
> gave up on trying.
> 
> 
> > 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.
> I want to move windows between my two monitors. Since the driver has
> problems with randr and xinerama and notion cannot deal with different
> display hights i want to move beween different x-screens, but without
> xpra/xmove (looks like a very ugly hack to me, never worked for me).
> Is there a more elegant soultion? Tag and attach does not work.

Moving X clients from X server to another won't work using plain notion.
I guess you'd have to stick with the hack solutions like xpra/xmove.
BTW, notion can handle different display heights with mod_xrandr and
proper randr support. ;)

Not sure how you've tried mod_xinerama, but it was not ment to be used
as substitution of xpra/xmove while using two seperate X servers.

Before I switched to notion I had used dual head setup with proprietary
nvidia driver with TwinView enabled and mod_xinerama on _ion_. Maybe
mod_xinerama became just incompatible to notion? 

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael Kockmeyer
Good Luck! 
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Juri Hamburg
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