Re: Multiple displays don't work with X11?
Re: Multiple displays don't work with X11?
- Subject: Re: Multiple displays don't work with X11?
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 16:23:27 -0700
At 16:53 -0500 3/17/03, Christopher J. White wrote:
>When X11 is the current
>application, the mouse pointer stops at the edges
>of the initial screen.
Learn about the -geometry option for X11 applications including window managers.
X11 does not understand negative screen coordinates. Apple's standard desktop puts 0,0 at the upper left corner of the menu bar. Somehow X11 translates everything so that 0,0 is the upper left corner of the rectangle enclosing all of gworld. In my case, with a monitor above my main - menu - monitor that led to windows being opened in space where there was no phosphor.
Using geometry in the calls to Linux apps with ssh and putting some geometry options in the .xinitrc file fixed things up. I did have to be pretty careful about calculating coordinates though.
And: -geometry units are sometimes pixels and other times characters. It's application dependent. Sigh.
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