On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:43:25AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 04.11.2010 08:38, schrieb Mick: > > > > PS. Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the > > application windows seem to be screen aware. On the left monitor they > > will maximise only to cover fully the left hand screen not the right > > hand. The same happens when maximising an application window on the > > right. I don't remember seeing this in Linux - applications I think > > maximised across both screens. > > Again, I don't know what desktop environment you are using but that > works flawlessly on KDE. >
Just to make it a bit more clear: xrandr is used to setup the resolution and position of the monitors (you can make them clone each other, overlap, be alongside / above / below the other...) How the windows / panels behave depends on your windows manager/desktop environment (or on the panels themselves). X server provides them with enough information about the layout of the monitors, and they have to use it. So it depends on which DE or window manager you use... In kde3, there was a configuration option for kwin, whether windows should be maximized across all screens or on single screen... I can't find it in kde4 settings right now, but I have only single head card here and I guess it would be under "Multiple Monitors" option in settings, which just says "You don't appear to have this configuration" for me ;) Plasma in kde4 manages things per monitor, so panels should be only on one monitor (and you can't get them across multiple monitors, you have to have a separate panel on each)... Recent versions of fluxbox allow you to have the toolbar on a certain monitor (head) or across all heads... Don't know how it is when maximizing windows (some time ago I used to patch it to make it an option, didn't play with it lately...) I can't say anything for gnome or other DEs/WMs... yoyo
