Xserver 1.7 and Xinerama/xrandr

Jürg Billeter j at bitron.ch
Tue Oct 6 22:47:14 PDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 22:18 +0200, Florian Echtler wrote:
> I've just finished a looong recompile of quite a lot of things in order
> to run the 1.7 Xserver release. Now everything works fine again, with
> one exception: my Gnome desktop has partly lost its dual-screen
> awareness. The two screens are configured correctly on login, however,
> notifications now suddenly pop up in the center of the virtual screen
> again instead of in the center of the focused screen. This is somewhat
> annoying, as they are split across both displays. Also, the panel now
> extends across both screens instead of the primary only. However, when I
> maximize a window, it only covers one physical display as it's supposed
> to..

You need to rebuild GTK+ if you didn't have libxrandr 1.3 installed when
it was built.

Jürg




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