New XFCE apps

[Len Ovens]

On Mon, March 4, 2013 12:44 am, ttoine wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately it seems to be a part of unity itself. All the bugs are
pointed at unity and fixed there.
>
> 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 ?

Top aligned is fine with two screens that are close in size. I guess I am
more aware of this because I have a netbook with a (really) small screen.
So if the bottom of the two screens is physically aligned but logically
top aligned, when I move the mouse from one monitor to the other it jumps
4 inches vertically up or down and may in fact be off the bottom of my
netbook screen. It makes it hard to follow with the eye where the mouse
pointer is on the screen. It is easiest to top align because there is only
one calculation to make.

>
> 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.

unplugging a monitor and having the main screen left with no menu bar is
just broken. This is what happens now. What happens in unity is much
better. This is an xfce problem. I will be talking with an xfce dev and
see what can be done to fix it.

> 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.

First we need to make default do something logical... then it is ok to
worry about more than one setup  :)



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