GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 567808
Metacity should have a way to be told to ignore some screens on the display
Last modified: 2009-01-14 23:26:59 UTC
Please describe the problem: I have a GeForce 7600GT two-head videocard, the first one is connected to the display and the second one - to a 46" HDTV LCD TV. Now on the TV I'm going only to watch movies and perhaps play games, but I'm not going to work there so I don't have any use for a window manager on it. However, at startup metacity will enumerate all available screens and run on both of them. This not only eats extra resources, but doesn't allow me to use compositing because (see bug #562669) compositing breaks video syncing. Steps to reproduce: Run metacity on a configuration with two displays without a Xinerama configuration. Actual results: Metacity will launch two desktops, one on every screen Expected results: I would expect to have a way to tell Metacity to not handle, for example, display :0.1 or something like that. Does this happen every time? Other information: I would be happy if either a gconf option or a environment variable would be examined before taking over a specific screen. Perhaps even, some may want to tell metacity to ignore certain displays too.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. (In reply to comment #0) > Perhaps even, some may want to tell metacity to ignore certain displays too. Metacity only ever handles a single display anyway, though, so you'd have to run two copies to deal with two displays (though few people have multiple displays on the same host these days). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 351647 ***