[wplug] Dual Monitor (Maximizing across two monitors)

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Wed May 19 08:59:12 EDT 2010


On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Greg Akins <angrygreg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Are you using Metacity or Compiz? Maybe try switching to the other one?
>
> I didn't even know what these were.. but looking at Metacity took me
> to the Appearances Prefs.. It turns out that turning off the visual
> effects allows the stretching to work better.  I think that the
> "snapping" to a display behavior was part of Metacity's UI effects.
>
> Not sure whether I'll miss any of the effects, in that case I might
> look at Compiz.  Also, the devilspie app, that Eric mentioned, looks
> like it might be helpful.

Those effects *ARE* Compiz.  When you turn on "Desktop Effects" you
are changing your window manager from Metacity (GNOME's default) to
Compiz.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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