Adding MergedFB support to windows manager question?

[Alex Deucher]

On Jan 23, 2008 9:09 PM, Jerone Young <jerone at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a question for the list concerning MergedFB. I plan on giving a
> crack at adding support to Gnome panel , GDM, & Nautilus for Merge FB
> but I do have some questions. Currently Gnome tries to determine
> position based on screen, but with MergedFB this obviously has issues.
> Here are my first set of questions:
>
> 1) Is there a function to determine if MergeFB is being used?
>
> 2) Since you can no longer determine monitors by screens what can be
> used to determine to identify each individual region?
>
>
> I also found this link on thinkwiki to be usesful in explaining
> MergeFB better in this writeup on RandR 1.2:
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2

mergedfb is more or less dead at this point.  You are better off
working on xrandr 1.2 support.  Use the xinerama hints to determine
screen areas.  Most windows managers already do this; so does gdm and
gnome panels.

Alex