gfixler
April 10th, 2008, 12:22 PM
I'm wondering how the Outputs work in CCSM->General->Display Settings.
I'm on a strange setup: 3 1280x1024 screens plugged into the Matrox TripleHead2Go, a splitter box that looks to the PC like 1 triple-width screen (3840x1024). Compiz works great, except that fullscreens, and maximizes are HUGE :) I've since entered this in Outputs (unchecking Detect Outputs):
1280x1024+0+0
1280x1024+1280+0
1280x1024+2560+0
That made fullscreens, and maximizes stay on their own screens, but there are many small, annoying issues that seem inconsistent as a result of this, making me think everything's working its own way:
F11 on Firefox on the left monitor works fine - fullscreens to the left screen only. On the right monitor, it pops to the left for an instant, then back to the right, where it fullscreens properly there - weird, but okay. If I fullscreen on the middle monitor, however, it scales to about 3840x1024 (size of all 3 screens), doesn't undecorate, and puts the top-left edge about titlebar width above wherever it was the first time (jogs left slightly, too), and then each additional fullscreen toggling moves it to the top left corner of the desktop (under the top panel, though), and onto the left screen abouot 20 pixels total. It's a mess. Toggling out of F11 always restores the window to where it was before fullscreening for all screens.
Maximize (dbl-click titlebar, or hit max button) works great for all maxable windows (including Firefox), and maxes to whichever monitor the mouse is in when activating it, regardless of with which method - nice, repeatable, and even rather expected. Excellent work, whoever :)
The Autumn Plugin's leaves are separated - each screen has its own unique set that won't cross monitor borders, unless rotating the cube. Huh? It reminds me of the wallpaper problem, listed next. Before setting Outputs, the leaves flow across monitors like one big sheet of falling leaves. In contrast, the Water Effect ripples across all 3, like one big sheet of water.
When I boot up, before Compiz comes fully online, I get 3 separate wallpapers, one per monitor. A bit later, Compiz finally puts its wallpaper over all 3. I used to get the only the first one across all 3 before setting the Outputs. Where are these coming from? Metacity? I can't find them anywhere.
The Ring, Shift, and Application Switchers are always centered on the currently focused monitor (only). Before setting the Outputs, they'd be centered across, and would flow across all 3, which looked a lot nicer, and more intentional. In contrast, Expo looks great - I get a wall of 3-wide screens across all 3 screens :)
Also, why by default are the Ring and Shift Switchers' Previous/Next Window hotkeys set to the same thing? How's that even possible? They're both Super+Tab, and Shift+Super+Tab. With both enabled, the Shift Switcher wins out when I use the hotkeys. If I disable it, the same hotkeys now work the Ring Switcher.
That's probably a good enough list for now. I hope I don't come across as a complainer. I absolutely love Compiz, and hate going to work where I must use XP even extra because I can't have it there. I'd just love to see what I view as inconsistencies like those mentioned above hammered out, so everything 'just works' very consistently everywhere.
Thanks!
-Gary
I'm on a strange setup: 3 1280x1024 screens plugged into the Matrox TripleHead2Go, a splitter box that looks to the PC like 1 triple-width screen (3840x1024). Compiz works great, except that fullscreens, and maximizes are HUGE :) I've since entered this in Outputs (unchecking Detect Outputs):
1280x1024+0+0
1280x1024+1280+0
1280x1024+2560+0
That made fullscreens, and maximizes stay on their own screens, but there are many small, annoying issues that seem inconsistent as a result of this, making me think everything's working its own way:
F11 on Firefox on the left monitor works fine - fullscreens to the left screen only. On the right monitor, it pops to the left for an instant, then back to the right, where it fullscreens properly there - weird, but okay. If I fullscreen on the middle monitor, however, it scales to about 3840x1024 (size of all 3 screens), doesn't undecorate, and puts the top-left edge about titlebar width above wherever it was the first time (jogs left slightly, too), and then each additional fullscreen toggling moves it to the top left corner of the desktop (under the top panel, though), and onto the left screen abouot 20 pixels total. It's a mess. Toggling out of F11 always restores the window to where it was before fullscreening for all screens.
Maximize (dbl-click titlebar, or hit max button) works great for all maxable windows (including Firefox), and maxes to whichever monitor the mouse is in when activating it, regardless of with which method - nice, repeatable, and even rather expected. Excellent work, whoever :)
The Autumn Plugin's leaves are separated - each screen has its own unique set that won't cross monitor borders, unless rotating the cube. Huh? It reminds me of the wallpaper problem, listed next. Before setting Outputs, the leaves flow across monitors like one big sheet of falling leaves. In contrast, the Water Effect ripples across all 3, like one big sheet of water.
When I boot up, before Compiz comes fully online, I get 3 separate wallpapers, one per monitor. A bit later, Compiz finally puts its wallpaper over all 3. I used to get the only the first one across all 3 before setting the Outputs. Where are these coming from? Metacity? I can't find them anywhere.
The Ring, Shift, and Application Switchers are always centered on the currently focused monitor (only). Before setting the Outputs, they'd be centered across, and would flow across all 3, which looked a lot nicer, and more intentional. In contrast, Expo looks great - I get a wall of 3-wide screens across all 3 screens :)
Also, why by default are the Ring and Shift Switchers' Previous/Next Window hotkeys set to the same thing? How's that even possible? They're both Super+Tab, and Shift+Super+Tab. With both enabled, the Shift Switcher wins out when I use the hotkeys. If I disable it, the same hotkeys now work the Ring Switcher.
That's probably a good enough list for now. I hope I don't come across as a complainer. I absolutely love Compiz, and hate going to work where I must use XP even extra because I can't have it there. I'd just love to see what I view as inconsistencies like those mentioned above hammered out, so everything 'just works' very consistently everywhere.
Thanks!
-Gary