Re: GNOME2 - Dual Head & Metacity
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: Trevor Nichols <trevor ocdi org>
- Cc: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: GNOME2 - Dual Head & Metacity
- Date: Mon Jul 1 14:55:02 2002
Trevor Nichols <trevor ocdi org> writes:
>
> I've finally swapped over to using GNOME2 since this afternoon. I am
> very impressed with the quality of improvement since I last tried it.
>
> Since I run a dual-head setup my situation is slightly more complicated
> than normal. Previously I didn't use xinerama. After trying to use
> metacity I discovered it doesn't support dual-head in this mode.
> (Before I used to use Enlightenment 0.16 which supports dual-head very
> well).
>
> Temporarily I have enabled Xinerama but I don't quite like this mode of
> operation. My main objective is to be able to split up the desktops:
> Normally I have consoles on the left screen and web browser or "final
> output" on the right. (when developing GUI or web or LaTeX documents).
>
> I'd stick with E16, but it doesn't support whatever is required for the
> GNOME2 Window List or Workspace selector...
>
> I would like to use Metacity but would prefer non-xinerama.
>
> Any suggestions as to my options?
>
Metacity should work with dual head, but you have to compile it with
the CVS HEAD version of GTK+, instead of 2.0.x. That development
version of GTK will probably cause a bit of instability in some other
apps, but should mostly work.
Havoc
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