GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 303801
"new login in nested window" doesn't play nice with xinerama
Last modified: 2010-06-04 19:51:59 UTC
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/7617 "On my multihead/xinerama system, I find that the xnest integration isn't very usable. The resulting Xnest server spans part of both monitors. It would be fantastic if the Xnest was the size of *one* of my displays. Some thoughts and suggestions: Solution #1: Probe for xinerama and create an xnest for a single display. This has problems when some of the displays are a different size than the others. Maybe you could choose the smallest of the set. Solution #2: Make the window resizable. I suspect this is *very* difficult. Unless Xnest is able to resize on the fly (seems to be fixed). Solution #3: Provide a way to pick a resolution. Not especially user friendly, but it is probably the easiest solution and would work for pretty much any layout. None of these ideas are perfect. Any suggestions? I suppose what I really want is an easy way to spawn a new session for quick user switching (I run my p2p clients under reduced privileges in another account) Thanks, Adam"
Some suggestions: - GDM could query the Xinerama monitor extents and pass -geometry to Xnest - Xnest could base its default window size calculation on the Xinerama monitor extents. Its current code is: if (!(xnestUserGeometry & WidthValue)) xnestWidth = 3 * DisplayWidth(xnestDisplay, DefaultScreen(xnestDisplay)) / 4; if (!(xnestUserGeometry & HeightValue)) xnestHeight = 3 * DisplayHeight(xnestDisplay, DefaultScreen(xnestDisplay)) / 4; If we're not going to do the former, then a bug should be logged against xorg for the latter and this bug should be closed NOTGNOME.
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. However, you are using a version that is too old and not supported anymore. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use. By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of GNOME. Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GNOME.