On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 02:05:28 +0000 Michael Faynberg <mfaynb...@hotmail.com> said:
> Dear Madam/Sir, > > I have an XLib-based application (however old), which is running by opening a > terminal session from a Windows client computer on an OpenVms server. It is > running OK unless the client machine has multiple monitors. In that case we > experience the following problems: > > 1. I cannot drag the top window completely from one monitor to another: > however I try, the part of this window still stays "stuck" to the original > monitor; > > 2. When one is trying to maximize the top window, it extends to the > full screen meaning the bounding rectangle of all the monitors present - but > I would like to restrict it so that it would occupy the physical screen > rather than the logical one. I cannot locate any way for doing that though. I > can not determine: > > a. The index (for example, or some sort of identification) of the > current monitor, where "current" means the monitor the top program window is > located at; > > b. The dimensions of the current monitor; > The calls to the XHeightOfScreen() and XWidthOfScreen() return > the size of the logical screen without the taskbar, which makes the situation > even more confusing... How can I find out then where the taskbar is located > and what is its width - for that matter? If I could answer these questions at > list I would have tried to implement some empirical logic assuming that all > monitors attached are of the same size... which is certainly not guaranteed > but can be tolerated at the moment if there is no better solution. this sounds like you have a badly broken xinerama setup / config as opposed to the modern (for about 15-20 years now) xrandr style setup where a single driver runs all outputs. i don't know how you've managed to get such a broken setup... i haven't seen xinerama in use for a very very very long time now. > Anyway, I will greatly appreciate your help on this issue! > > Best regards, > > Mike Faynberg > mfaynb...@hotmail.com<mailto:mfaynb...@hotmail.com> > > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com
