Re: [Notion-general] xinerama vs dock

[Thomas K. <tk...@gi...>]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 12:11:21AM +0100, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> > 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 :) )

Please do that. It's what keeping me from switching to xinerama.

I found out part of the issue in the meantime -- it seems the right monitor is workspace-set 1 and the left one is workspace-set 2.
xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode 1920x1200 --left-of DVI-1
I probably should just switch the signals around to solve this.

That explains why the wmdockapps are on the right screen now, but why are the wmdockapps not reducing the size of the windows?
And where is the statusbar?

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

With default setup, there seems to be one workspace on both screens.
F9 creates another workspace, and I can switch with ALT-, or ALT- between them (or ALT-1/2/...).
With ALT-Tab I can switch around the frames on one monitor.

The URL you cite says:
"When you have a multiple-monitor setup, you should be using mod_xinerama, which makes sure there's a set of workspaces on each monitor, instead of one set of workspaces spanning all monitors."

So now I had to learn ALT-Shift-, and ALT-Shift-1 to switch between the monitor sets of workspaces.
I'm not sure I get the point of having multiple sets of workspaces, one per monitor. How are people using this?

One other issue: mplayer full screen now takes one full monitor, not split over two like without xinerama.
However, geeqie fullscreen doesn't work. It did the same without xinerama like mplayer, but now it doesn't show its fullscreen window.
I think geeqie full screen works like this: usually, the picture is on the right hand side. When you press f, a separate screenfilling window is added with the picture, but the original menu window stays (without the picture) -- you can alt-tab out of full screen to it. However, I only get the menu window, not the fullscreen picture one.

Cheers,
 Thomas