[dwm] Xinerama autocenter issue

[Alex Matviychuk]

I'm floating eclipse across the length of 1.5 monitors using xinerama.
Whenever I use a dialog inside eclipse, it tries to center itself and
considers the center as the center of the first monitor. Is there a
way to fix this? Or is there a better way of streaching apps across
monitors?

Thanks,
Alex

[Anselm R Garbe]

Post by Alex Matviychuk
I'm floating eclipse across the length of 1.5 monitors using xinerama.
Whenever I use a dialog inside eclipse, it tries to center itself and
considers the center as the center of the first monitor. Is there a
way to fix this? Or is there a better way of streaching apps across
monitors?

The dialog that pops up belongs to the monitor of the parent window
(eclipse). Hence it's centered on the monitor it belongs to.
Stretching things across monitors is not intended to be supported well
by dwm's Xinerama support. The best solution for this is buying a
bigger screen and telling the monitor vendor that you bought this
screen because you are a dwm user ;) Perhaps some screen manufacturer
will ring some day when it realises the critical dwm user base ;)

Kind regards,
Anselm

[Moritz Wilhelmy]

Post by Anselm R Garbe

Post by Alex Matviychuk
I'm floating eclipse across the length of 1.5 monitors using xinerama.
Whenever I use a dialog inside eclipse, it tries to center itself and
considers the center as the center of the first monitor. Is there a
way to fix this? Or is there a better way of streaching apps across
monitors?

The dialog that pops up belongs to the monitor of the parent window
(eclipse). Hence it's centered on the monitor it belongs to.
Stretching things across monitors is not intended to be supported well
by dwm's Xinerama support. The best solution for this is buying a
bigger screen and telling the monitor vendor that you bought this
screen because you are a dwm user ;) Perhaps some screen manufacturer
will ring some day when it realises the critical dwm user base ;)
Kind regards,
Anselm

And the dwm community will get the real big screens cheaper? I like it :-D

Regards
Moritz Wilhelmy

[hiro]

yeah, what a great idea...

Post by Moritz Wilhelmy

Post by Anselm R Garbe

Post by Alex Matviychuk
I'm floating eclipse across the length of 1.5 monitors using xinerama.
Whenever I use a dialog inside eclipse, it tries to center itself and
considers the center as the center of the first monitor. Is there a
way to fix this? Or is there a better way of streaching apps across
monitors?

The dialog that pops up belongs to the monitor of the parent window
(eclipse). Hence it's centered on the monitor it belongs to.
Stretching things across monitors is not intended to be supported well
by dwm's Xinerama support. The best solution for this is buying a
bigger screen and telling the monitor vendor that you bought this
screen because you are a dwm user ;) Perhaps some screen manufacturer
will ring some day when it realises the critical dwm user base ;)
Kind regards,
Anselm

And the dwm community will get the real big screens cheaper? I like it :-D
Regards
Moritz Wilhelmy

[Alex Matviychuk]

Sorry I should of been more clear. I can understand and accept the
dialog centering, but the whole app is being recentered and part of it
is going off screen. I started detaching tabs and dragging them to the
second monitor, but when I switch tags and then switch back, all the
detached tabs jump back to the first monitor @_@

haha, anyway, maybe it's time to look at emacs. Also, found a link to
a plugin for eclipse that fixes some xinerama issues in KDE
(http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/3-5-x-Xinerama-improvements-27124.shtml),
but I'll switch to Windows ME before I switch to KDE </hyperbole>

cheers
-Alex

Post by Anselm R Garbe

Post by Alex Matviychuk
I'm floating eclipse across the length of 1.5 monitors using xinerama.
Whenever I use a dialog inside eclipse, it tries to center itself and
considers the center as the center of the first monitor. Is there a
way to fix this? Or is there a better way of streaching apps across
monitors?

The dialog that pops up belongs to the monitor of the parent window
(eclipse). Hence it's centered on the monitor it belongs to.
Stretching things across monitors is not intended to be supported well
by dwm's Xinerama support. The best solution for this is buying a
bigger screen and telling the monitor vendor that you bought this
screen because you are a dwm user ;) Perhaps some screen manufacturer
will ring some day when it realises the critical dwm user base ;)
Kind regards,
Anselm

[Anselm R Garbe]

Post by Alex Matviychuk
Sorry I should of been more clear. I can understand and accept the
dialog centering, but the whole app is being recentered and part of it
is going off screen. I started detaching tabs and dragging them to the
second monitor, but when I switch tags and then switch back, all the
haha, anyway, maybe it's time to look at emacs. Also, found a link to
a plugin for eclipse that fixes some xinerama issues in KDE
(http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/3-5-x-Xinerama-improvements-27124.shtml),
but I'll switch to Windows ME before I switch to KDE </hyperbole>

I use Eclipse at work sometimes and always run it in floating mode.

Kind regards,
Anselm

[Alex Matviychuk]

Yeah that seems to do the trick. As long as I stick to one monitor and
don't expect detached windows to remember their positions, it's not
too bad.

Cheers,
Alex

Post by Anselm R Garbe

Post by Alex Matviychuk
Sorry I should of been more clear. I can understand and accept the
dialog centering, but the whole app is being recentered and part of it
is going off screen. I started detaching tabs and dragging them to the
second monitor, but when I switch tags and then switch back, all the
haha, anyway, maybe it's time to look at emacs. Also, found a link to
a plugin for eclipse that fixes some xinerama issues in KDE
(http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/3-5-x-Xinerama-improvements-27124.shtml),
but I'll switch to Windows ME before I switch to KDE </hyperbole>

I use Eclipse at work sometimes and always run it in floating mode.
Kind regards,
Anselm