New XFCE apps

[ttoine]

Len,

I use a dual screen with Unity, and the setup is saved accross restart. At
loging, the mouse pointer is between the two screens. You can choose which
one is the main by moving the move to right or left screen. The top panel
is on both screens.

At office, I use a dual screen with a win7 laptop. They are top aligned and
it is ok. Maybe could you explain why it is better when bottom aligned ?

Think that most of the dual screen setups can be done using a restricted
driver. I checked different ways, the nVidia is the more complete and easy
to use for this purpose. AMD is harder to setup. And of course, Intel
depend of the default Unity of Xfce tool, so it is the more limitated.

Maybe the good way would be have the possibility to save differents setups,
like in network manager. And then, if possible, detect wich one is the
good, or let the user choose.

Toine


Antoine THOMAS
Tél: 0663137906


2013/3/4 Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net>

> I was "listening in" on the Xubuntu meeting today. Mention was made of
> menulibre. I looked it up with synaptic and could not find it. So I asked
> :) and it is an in the works deal that xfce will be using to replace
> alacarte which both Xubuntu and Studio use as a menu editor. It is being
> written by the same author as catfish so I expect it to be good. It is
> lighter than alacarte as well... though I think we carry all the gnome
> libs anyway. I will be watching testing as work progresses. Perhaps it
> will be better than alacarte. I have been frustrated with the lack of
> usefulness of alacarte and the support headache I have had with it when
> other people try to do more than it was built for.
>
> While I was there I asked about monitor detection and when I told them
> why, I was told that there is a new display tool on the way as well.
>
> The background on displays is that dual monitors has been less than easy
> to use and once set up less than stable. Unity has a better (not as good
> as I would like) setup than xfce does. Unity at least defaults to side by
> side... though the side by side is top aligned rather than bottom. This is
> ok if both monitors are the same size, but with a laptop the main monitor
> in the laptop is likely smaller than the second and bottom alignment makes
> more sense (the mouse will be easier to find when moving it from one
> display to the other). I don't know how it deals with more than two
> monitors, but that is getting into specialty use and requires special X
> setup anyway as most video cards only have 2 outputs. Unity also does not
> allow setting the second monitor to left of or above the main monitor with
> a saved setting. That is, the second monitor can be moved, but if it is
> unplugged and reconnected it goes back to default to right of/top aligned.
> I would like to have a setup where there are two settings saved. A single
> setting and a dual setting and xfce dynamically switches form one setting
> to the other on hotplug.
>
>
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