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Old 11-14-2005, 04:21 AM   #1
bram2000
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Fluxbox and Xinerama


Hi,

I'm on Ubuntu Breezy and have just started using Xinerama to display my desktop across two monitors. The problem is, I use Fluxbox and by running 'fluxbox -info' I can see that Xinerama support is not built into the ubuntu build of fluxbox. No problem I thought, removed the Ubuntu package, got the fluxbox source from the website and recompiled with the --enable-xinerama option. The strange thing is, if I find the 'fluxbox' binary that I have just compiled, and run './fluxbox -info', this version appears not to have xinerama support either!?! I have tried this several times with no luck.

Anybody any ideas how I can compile fluxbox with Xinerama support so that (amongst other things) I can maximise windows to only ONE of my screens instead of across both? I have already posted a question on the fluxbox sourceforge forum but with no replies as yet.

Thanks in advance,


Jon
 
Old 11-14-2005, 06:48 AM   #2
bram2000
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I just got this working. Basically, I ran 'apt-get build-dep fluxbox' to get all of the dev packages required to build fluxbox from source. Amongst these was libxinerama-dev. Not sure if that was the one that it needed but it seems like a likely suspect

Anyway, I then recompiled fluxbox with the --enable-xinerama and now It works like a charm!!!


Jon
 
  


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