Comment 72 for bug 331369

After looking into the source for a bit, it seems that my issue is when it doesn't detect any panels (gnome-panel anyway) it defaults to using workarea fallback which completely ignores multi-head focus-folllow and uses the entire desktop size instead of a specific monitor.

I just made changes to the code to make it default to the first monitor (or the focus monitor if defaults_multi_head_focus_follow exists) instead of the entire desktop.

My changes are very specific, though. I don't have a top panel (or any gnome-panels for that matter) AND I'm using multiple screens.

A more elegant solution would be to look into scenarios where no [?top] panel exists in a multi-head environment and having it fall back to focus-follow or even a specified display through gconf.