topic title: iceWM and Xinerama
Posts: 1,308
BitJam
Joined: 31 Aug 2009
#1
I installed the nvidia driver and enabled Twinview to use both my monitors. IceWM did not handle this well. I was unable to drag *some* windows (roxterm, iceweasel) from the left screen to the right screen. They would stop when the cursor hit the border between the two screens. I was able to drag the gkrellm window back and forth with no problem. A reboot didn't change the behavior.

I switched to FluxBox and everything worked great so I'll just stick with FluxBox for now. As an experiment I installed iceWM on my Gentoo system (with the xinerama USE flag) and it worked just fine across both screens.
Posts: 1,520
eriefisher
Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#2
Because you say it's working in fluxbox you probably enabled xinerama in xorg.conf and restarted X, but if not it's worth a check. I'm puzzled why it would work in one and not the other unless there is something about IceWM that's different.
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BitJam
Joined: 31 Aug 2009
#3
Thank for the reply. I'm sorry I wasn't clear. I rebooted the computer and FluxBox worked while iceWM did not and there was no change in the xorg.conf file. I used Nvidia's"Twinview" which does the Xinerama automatically so Xinerama was always enabled.

At first I thought the error was because there was no Xinerama support in iceWM but I compiled it on Gentoo without Xinerama and I could not replicate the problem.