Re: [Notion-general] xinerama vs dock

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 01:07:54AM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> I've just started packaging notion for pkgsrc and evaluating it for my use.
> 
> I like that it works fine with WindowMaker dock apps and is a bit more
> intuitive to use than other tiling window managers.

Great!

> I have one issue with mplayer though. I'm using two screens, and when
> I press 'f' in mplayer, it gets centered over both screens, i.e. half
> is on one screen, half on the other (the size is correct for one
> screen, not for two).
> 
> Weirdly, youtube flash fullscreen works fine for me, it uses one
> complete screen (replacing dock and title bar).

Strange

> I thought that perhaps the xinerama extension might help

If you're using 2 screens that's probably useful to you anyway

> so I added
> dopath("mod_xinerama") to ~/.notion/cfg_notion.lua. The result was
> that I lost my dock apps and the status bar; it's now displayed on
> neither of the two screens (it was on the left monitor before).
>
> Please advise how to get better fullscreen support for mplayer, or how
> I can get the dock back with mod_xinerama.

You need to load mod_dock and mod_statusbare after loading mod_xinerama.

(this is unfortunate. until we find a way to make this work whatever order
you choose, latest notion git gives you a warning when you load them in the
'wrong' order)

Does fullscreening mplayer work when mod_xinerama is loaded?

> One other question: Do I understand correctly: since notion doesn't
> use the ion name, does it fall under a plain GNU LGPL v2.1?

Unfortunately, this is only almost true.

Indeed, basically the 'strange' clauses in the Ion license only apply "If the 
name Ion(tm) or other names that can be associated with the Ion project are 
used to distribute this software".

Even though these 'conditional' clauses don't apply in our case, it does make
our license non-LGPL (because they might apply to people redistributing Notion
under another name, like 'Ion').


Kind regards,

Arnout