On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 10:16 +0100, Danny Baumann wrote: > > > > > "metacity doesn't know what is the full screen resolution" > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431302 > > > > > > > > Can you please look at it and say if this looks like a compiz, X, > > > > gnome which bug :) > > > > > > I've been aware of this issue for about a year or more now, but never > > > really considered it a bug. Like Danny sais in the cf bug report [1], > > > it's totally wm-dependant how to treat this issue. > > > > From users point of view it definitely is a bug and should be fixed. > > It _is_ a bug, and definitely should be fixed - but IMO not inside > Compiz. Compiz can work around this, but then you have fixed > maximization, but still broken panels, because panels place themselves > and rely on Xinerama as well (e.g. gnome-panel via Gtk -> Gdk which > calls XineramaQueryScreens). > Do you want to have workarounds in all X11 clients out there that use > Xinerama? I'd rather disagree to that ;-) > I still think there are only two valid locations to fix this: either the > driver to not report a weird head configuration, or the X server to > filter out weird configurations.
Well, it's not so much a 'weird configuration' as a faithful representation of reality. :) What to do with this information is policy and thus not up to the X server. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz