[RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

Martin Gräßlin mgraesslin at kde.org
Fri Jan 20 12:44:16 UTC 2012


On Friday 20 January 2012 13:31:49 todd rme wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Alex Fiestas <afiestas at kde.org> wrote:
> > The only reason I can think of is to create "video walls", meaning
> > multiple
> > monitors used as if they were 1.
> > 
> > Not sure if that can be done lower in the stack using xrandr for example.
> 
> But is that something that should be in this config?  I would think
> that would be something done on a window-by-window basis, rather than
> a system-wide setting.  I see two possible ways to handle this (not
> mutually exclusive):
> 
> 1. A window rule to ignore multi-monitor information when maximizing.
> 2. An option when right-clicking on the title bar to maximum ignoring
> multi-monitor information.
This would add even more complexity and would further clutter the window menu 
with rather useless options.

For such specific cases we have KWin scripts.

Cheers
Martin
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