Adding MergedFB support to windows manager question?

[Rui Tiago Cação Matos]

On 24/01/2008, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

AFAIK, Soeren Sandmann is working on the missing bits for some time
now. Check his TODO at http://www.gnome.org/~ssp/randr/

Rui