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Re: [trinity-users] Trinity and multiple screens (in X sense)

From: Nick Koretsky <nick_koretsky@...>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 09:28:57 +0300
On Thu, 11 May 2017 01:56:37 -0400
Felix Miata <mrmazda@...> wrote:

> Nick Koretsky composed on 2017-05-11 08:12 (UTC+0300):
> 
> > 0:0 is always an upper left corner of the leftmost display.  
> 
> This sounds like a problem we may have solved or found a workround for.
> Without reading the whole thread I don't remember:
> 
> https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2017-02/msg00431.html

There is no resolution in this threads (well, kde plasma script that
overrides position is a one, but its a) kde plasma b) ugly hack ). Other
than that just a links to a lot of bugreports and explanations of the 0:0
problem. The only proposed solution is to go multiple screens and that
exactly what i am trying to do and what trinity "session locked" blocks me
from :)

> 
> > So if i would be forced into multiple display on a single screen i will
> > have to set TV as a right display logically, at try to get used to
> > moving mouse to the opposite edge to to move between displays :(  
> 
> Assuming there is no proper solution to be found, might you find it
> easier as a workaround WRT mousing to logically position the extra
> display below instead of where you want it in its physical location left?
> At least the moves would be shorter up/down than sideways. :-p

Yep, that probably would be better :)


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