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gnome-panel package

  1. Bug #192009
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 192009

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 192009] Re: gnome panel has no way to specify on which screen it should appear

On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 17:04 +0000, nickolai wrote:
> > I don't see that this would have changed with this patch would it?
> > Weren't both panels placed on the same screen before this change as
> > well?
>
> Prior to this change, my gnome-panel would move to the top of the
> combined desktop (top of the VGA screen), and there would be no instance
> of gnome-panel anywhere on the LVDS screen. This allowed me to have
> very tall windows that spanned multiple screens with little visual
> interruption.

Ah,

You only have a single panel. A second panel would have used to have
gone in the middle of the two screens.

Yes, your case would be worse with this patch. This patch is a trade-off
though, so there will be some.

With xrandr 1.3 it will be possible to make the behaviour configurable,
but that's not an option for Jaunty.

Thanks,

James