Thanks for the quick reply! It turns out mutter (along with a few other things) was built without xinerama support. After rebuilding them with xinerama support and logging back in it works just how I'd expect. I knew there must have been some simple thing I was missing :)
-Matt On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Tim <dark...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > > On 05/06/12 14:28, Matt Jorde wrote: > > Problem: > I have 2 monitors of different size an resolution next to each other. The > Gnome3 header and footer panels are both spanning across both monitors such > that the clock is split between the monitors, and half of the new media > notifications are hidden in the dead zone of one of the monitors so I can't > read the options. > > Goal: > I would love to have the top panel and bottom notification area show up on > _only_ the left monitor with the right monitor reserved as just an extra > space for windows to live. > > indeed that is the expected behaviour, with what you are seeing, either > xinerama is disabled for some reason or otherwise its a bug.... > > > It seems like this must be possible because I've searched for this and > pretty much every question I've come across shows that the panel only shows > up on a primary monitor and they either want it to be on the other monitor, > or want it to span both (the opposite of my problem). > > I've tried dragging the little panel in the "Display" settings to each > monitor and messing with the "primary" settings with xrandr, but no luck so > far. > > I'd really appreciate any suggestions or advice for moving forward. I > wouldn't be surprised if there's some totally obvious thing that I've > missed somehow. > > Thanks in advance! > -Matt > > > P.S. If I configure the right monitor to be _under_ the left monitor the > top panel appears only on the left monitor and the footer and new media > notifications appears only on the right monitor. However, this is > sub-optimal because I have to move windows _down_ on the left monitor to > move them to the right monitor. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing > listgnome-shell-list@gnome.orghttps://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > >
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