"Grant Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi Folks, > > My name's Grant. I'm brand new to this list and fvwm in general. > I'm pretty new to the open-source community too, in fact. I work > on the Linux UI for VMware Workstation and worked on implementing > multi-monitor fullscreen support. This lets you expose one or more > monitor to your guest virtual machine, a feature people have been > excited about. > > Here's the thing: our implementation requires all guest displays > to appear together in a single window that stretches over multiple > monitors. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done with most > window managers, including fvwm. We wound up devising all kinds of > hacks to put our window where we want it, with varying success for > each window manager. So my colleague has proposed a hint to be > added to the wm-spec: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2007-March/msg00002.html > > and has submitted a patch for Metacity, demonstrating that the > hint is sane: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D414476 > > We're hoping the hint is accepted in some form soon so that we > can start implementing it on a variety of window managers, > including fvwm, and release a future version of Workstation > that uses this hint instead of gross hacks. I'm starting > implementations on a variety of popular window managers and expect > only minor changes to things if the final accepted hint differs > from David's current proposal. > > So, I've just gotten the main branch from CVS, built it, all that. > I'm pretty much ready to start coding. Any tips? Any branch I > should be making these changes on besides main? (I believe fvwm's > latest "stable" branch doesn't support the single-monitor > fullscreen hint, correct?) We'd like this > support to come to the "masses" as quickly as possible.=20
There is Xinerama support in the 2.4 branch but it looks to me like the ewmh support is 2.5 only. I believe the bulk of Fvwm users are using the 2.5 branch so 2.5 only should be fine. -- Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
