Re: [Bug 192009] Re: gnome panel has no way to specify on which screen it should appear

2009-04-01 Thread James Westby 
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 17:04 +, nickolai wrote:
> > I don't see that this would have changed with this patch would it?
> > Weren't both panels placed on the same screen before this change as
> > well?
> 
> Prior to this change, my gnome-panel would move to the top of the
> combined desktop (top of the VGA screen), and there would be no instance
> of gnome-panel anywhere on the LVDS screen.  This allowed me to have
> very tall windows that spanned multiple screens with little visual
> interruption.

Ah,

You only have a single panel. A second panel would have used to have 
gone in the middle of the two screens.

Yes, your case would be worse with this patch. This patch is a trade-off
though, so there will be some.

With xrandr 1.3 it will be possible to make the behaviour configurable,
but that's not an option for Jaunty.

Thanks,

James

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Re: [Bug 192009] Re: gnome panel has no way to specify on which screen it should appear

2009-04-01 Thread James Westby 
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 16:11 +, nickolai wrote:
> This change makes the multi-screen experience strictly worse in at least
> one scenario, as follows.
> 
> In my case, I have an external VGA screen that's smaller than my LVDS
> screen, and physically placed above it.  After running "xrandr --output
> VGA --auto --above LVDS", my desktop extends upward to include the VGA
> screen, but gnome-panel remains at the top of the LVDS screen (since
> it's larger), in the middle of my logical desktop.  This seems odd,
> since windows that span both screens are now interrupted by a gnome-
> panel.

I don't see that this would have changed with this patch would it? 
Weren't both panels placed on the same screen before this change as
well?

> To make matters worse, when a new window is created and placed on the
> LVDS screen, the window is aligned to the top of the LVDS screen, as
> opposed to the bottom of the gnome-panel.  As a result, the window's
> title bar is placed below the overlapping gnome-panel, making it
> difficult to move the window.

This part I see as well, but I'm trying to work out which component
is at fault to file a bug.

Thanks,

James

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