[Parti-discuss] xpra issue with dual screen

[Antoine Martin]

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Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> Hi Mathijs,
> Sorry for this absurdly late reply -- I only just saw the message:
>  http://lists.partiwm.org/pipermail/parti-discuss/2009-October/000298.html
> 
> Yes, the problem is that Xvfb has to be started with a particular
> "screen" size, and if you move windows outside of that then things
> will not work correctly. The old default was 2048x2048.
> 
> Since your email, the default size has been changed to 3840x1920 --
> hopefully that's big enough for your setup?
> 
> The real solution, unfortunately, requires that someone implement the
> XRANDR extension in Xvfb.
Or replace Xvfb with Xvnc which already supports it.
I have sent a patch which allows you to specify it with --xvfb-bin=Xvnc
Although there were some keymapping issues, this is a hell of a lot
easier to fix than porting RANDR to Xvfb.

Antoine

> 
> -- Nathaniel
> 
> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Mathijs Kwik <bluescreen303 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying out xpra and I like it!
>> no more heavy nx stuff for me.
>>
>> The only problem I'm experiencing is that if I move an application
>> past some point (probably 2048) on the x -axis, I can't click anything
>> in the app anymore.
>> The mouse pointer still moves past that line, but on-mouse-over
>> buttons don't respond past that point.
>>
>> Maybe this has to do with xvfb being restricted to 2048 or something like that?
>>
>> Anyway, I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 (tested 8.10 too) and I'm using the xmonad
>> window manager.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mathijs
>>
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