Rootless mode only works on one monitor

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Sun Oct 20 15:59:00 GMT 2002


Yes, we should look into doing something that would allow rootless-mode 
windows to be placed anywhere on the virtual display area.  I think that 
may only require setting the size of the fake Windows-window to the size 
of the virtual display region.  Should be easy, right? ;)

Harold

Jehan wrote:

> Marcus Lindblom wrote:
>
>> Problems solved!
>>
>> The first was my bad (told nView not to let apps span two screens when
>> maximizing, do'h!).
>
>
> By default, XWin open a window as big as the primary desktop. Setting 
> nView to use both monitors as one big desktop is one solution.
> But you can also have two desktops (so the taskbar isn't extended on 
> both screen and a mazimized window fit on one monitor only) and use 
> the -screen parameter to force XWin to be bigger than the primary desktop.
>
>
>



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