On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Florian Burkart <florian.burk...@whu.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > if I specify the width and height of a plot I want to see via > >> X11(width=14,height=7) >> X11(width=28,height=14) >> X11(width=20,height=14) >> X11(width=13,height=14) >> X11(width=15,height=14) > > any width greater than 15 is ignored as it seems the width is limited by the > screen width. > > However, as I am using two screens (xinerama), I can easily manually resize > to fit two screens. > > Is there a way to get it to be wider than one screen width via the X11 call? > Is there something else I am doing wrong?
help(X11) says: The initial size and position are only hints, and may not be acted on by the window manager. Also, some systems (especially laptops) are set up to appear to have a screen of a different size to the physical screen. so the chances are it's your window manager overriding the hints. I had a similar problem yesterday with my Ubuntu Karmic Koala dual-screen box (you didn't say what OS exactly you've got). Trying to resize an OpenOffice Draw window over both screens was a pain, it kept snapping back to one screen. I could make it larger than one screen by slowly moving and resizing it a bit at a time, but one false move.. and SNAP! Back to one screen. Grr. See if you have similar problem resizing other applications, and then check your window manager settings. Somewhere in the nest of my Compiz Config Manager, amongst the 3d desktop cube, wobbling windows, and rain-on-my-screen effects, is something that is snapping away at me. Barry ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.