[wplug] Dual Monitor (Maximizing across two monitors)

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Greg Akins <angrygreg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Greg Akins <angrygreg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So far.. Eclipse and Terminal won't stretch at all.  I can take a
>> window of a given size and place it across both monitors, but when I
>> try to resize it, it "snaps" down to a single monitor.
>
> OK, I've now tried Eclipse, Netbeans, Terminal, Firefox and gcalctool.
>  All of them will stretch, to some extent, across two monitors.  In
> all cases, I have to do it incrementally.. it looks like there is
> something built into the windowing that "snaps" the window to a
> display if it's more than 50% (?? Speculating a bit here) in one
> display.  Calculator I can get to around 90% of the full width before
> it finally snapped back to a single display.

Are you using Metacity or Compiz? Maybe try switching to the other one?

>> I can experiment more tomorrow (work computer that I can't access from
>> home).  Also, I should probably give more details about how the
>> monitors are plugged into the card since it's using one of those Y
>> adapters, not a dual port card.
>
> The monitors are VGA, plugged into a Y adapter that is plugged into
> the graphics card DVI output.  Still not sure about whether there are
> two X session running.  Should I be looking for something in 'ps' to
> determine that?

If you can move a window across both screens at all, there's only one
X session.  Two X sessions would, I think, involve two login screens
as well.  And you could have KDE on one screen and GNOME on the other
if you wanted.
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