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List:       kwin
Subject:    Re: TwinView trouble with cover/flip switch
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2008-03-21 21:59:11
Message-ID: 200803212259.12104.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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On Thursday 20 of March 2008, Martin Graesslin wrote:
> Am Thursday, 20. März 2008 schrieb Lubos Lunak:
> >  There should not be any. You can even fake Xinerama on a single monitor
> > with http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/fakexinerama/ .
>
> Perfect - I have to try this tool ;-)
>
> > > I had to do some ugly hacks to get it working with screens positioned
> > > above each other and for different resolutions. I decided that when
> > > different resolutions are used, the effect will only be shown on the
> > > "bigger" screen.
> >
> >  That's a strange decision. If nothing else, it's at least inconsistent
> > with everything else. The effect should always happen on the active
> > screen in the area it gets from clientArea() [*]. Why would you want to
> > do it that way?
>
> I know it is inconsistence. The problem is, that it just doesn't look nice
> and for example a maximized window on the "big" screen does not fit on the
> "small" screen.

 But then the same problem will exist also if the user opens a window and lets 
it span both screens (or resizes the window to be bigger than one screen). 
Shouldn't all this be rather handled by scaling the window down if necessary?

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