Xinerama & kwin

[Adam I Howard]

Darrell Esau wrote:
> In KDE3.0.x:
> Control Center --> Look and Feel --> Window Behavior --> Advanced tab
> 

The only options available in KDE 3.0.1 under the Advanced Window 
Behavior tab are Shading (Animate/Hover) and Active Desktop Borders. Are 
  you saying there's options that affect Xinerama support there?

> If you enable the window placement support, that may fix your problem totally.
> 

In Control Center --> Look and Feel --> Window Behavior --> Moving
there is a Placement option, but I've setting it to Smart doesn't seem 
to be making it any more intelligent for me :p

> If not, I've found that then this is enabled, the new window will pop up in 
> whichever screen the mouse pointer is currently.  I find that to work very 
> well.
> 

I can't say I'm experiencing behavior quite this nice.

I probably should have mentioned this before, but I'm using KDE 3.0.1 as 
packaged with Slackware 8.1. I saw Usenet postings that lead me to 
believe Xinerama support is compiled into KDE on slackware, but maybe 
it's not, and I'm just experiencing the default behavior...any insights 
for me?

Thanks!

Adam

> 
> 
> On Monday 04 November 2002 11:04 am, Adam I Howard wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I just got Xinerama set up on my computer, and I've got two screens set
>>up with different resolutions (640x480, on an old PS/2 8513 monitor, and
>>1600x1200 on the hefty 20" Trinitron). Overall I'm fairly happy with how
>>this setup works, except that occasionally I'll start up a program and
>>its window location will end up entirely in the dead area below the
>>640x480 screen, and I'll have to maximize that window in order to find
>>it, get ahold of it, and resize it somewhere where I can see it.
>>
>>Is it possible to set up kwin so that it will avoid placing windows in
>>the dead area of my screen setup? or is there another window manager I
>>can swap in that will do this (and how to do so)? :)
>>
>>Thanks for your help!
>>
>>Adam
>>
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