Re: [Notion-general] xinerama vs dock

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

On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 04:15:12PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 03:14:48PM +0100, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Yes, it does very nice fullscreen now.
> When I load statusbar and dock after xinerama, I do get the wmdockapps back, but not the statusbar.
> Also, the statusbar was on the left monitor and on the right hand side of it were the dock apps (also on the left monitor).
> Now, the dock apps are on the left hand side of the right monitor and overlay the F3 (start apps) bar, which is annoying because I can't see what I type.
> Before, the F3-entry field was above the dock apps.

Hmm, I'd need to look into this further. (might have something to do with floating vs
embedded docks, we need to document all that better because I keep getting confused
myself too :) )

> When I just switched back to default config (no xinerama), the status+dockapps went over both screens; after ALT-K S it's now like before. I must have changed something during the xinerama tests.
> 
> I'm a bit confused about key bindings.
> Before loading mod_xinerama, I had one thing (sorry, what's the proper 
> term?) on each monitor, which I filled with an xterm each, and I could 
> ALT-Tab between them.

I think you mean 'frame' by 'thing' - perhaps review the manpage or the 'tour'
( https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notion/index.php?title=Tour ) 

> If I started another app, e.g. firefox, it was added to one of the two 
> things and ALT-K N/P switched between the windows on one monitor.
> 
> When loading mod_xinerama, each monitor started with two things, or a split 
> thing, I don't know how to tell the difference, and neither ALT-Tab nor 
> ALT-K N/P allow me to switch between them. 

I'm sorry, but do you mean you cannot switch between the 2 empty frames on one
monitor, or that you cannot switch from a frame on one monitor to a frame on 
another monitor?

Without mod_xinerama you have 1 big workspace which you can split into frames.
With mod_xinerama, you have 2 workspaces (1 for each monitor), which you can 
also split into frames. One big difference between 1 big workspace with 2 
frames and 2 workspaces with 1 frame each, is that you can resize the frames
in the former case but you cannot resize the workspaces in the latter case. I
hope I'm making any sense :).


Kind regards,

Arnout