Lubos Lunak wrote:
>> It does make sense to me that certain apps (games, vmware) might say
>> "cover multiple monitors" where the multiple monitors are distinct
>> spaces (what I called "b)" originally) for all other apps.
> 
>  Why? I don't see a single reason why VMWare should be able to change how 
> Konqueror goes fullscreen.

I think you interpreted my comment backward from what I was trying to 
say, I didn't mean vmware should change the global state.

> 
>> So I'd go 
>> with Elijah and say the hint makes sense, though I'm not clear yet on
>> whether it should cover only fullscreen behavior or all "xinerama
>> awareness"
>>
>> I do think some of the other issues raised need addressing, but they
>> appear orthogonal to this hint since this hint assumes case b) and
>> doesn't take a position on how we distinguish a) and b)
> 
>  And do we need to take position on a)? As you said, in such case Xinerama 
> settings should pretend there's no Xinerama.

I think it would be better if the X server simply didn't report 
xinerama, but last time we tried the X hackers couldn't be convinced, so 
perhaps we need to set our own XSETTING-type global desktop property.

Havoc

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