xscreensaver on dual-monitor setup

Mamoru Tasaka mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Wed Jul 30 07:00:28 UTC 2008


Hello:

oleksandr korneta wrote, at 07/30/2008 01:58 PM +9:00:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a Twin-view configuration setup with the LCD monitor and TV. It 
> used to be that xscreensaver treated those independently and launched an 
> individual whatever_the_screensaver_was_selected on each of them. After 
> the  recent update of xscreensaver-gl-extras-gss-5.06-2.fc8 and
> xscreensaver-gl-extras-5.06-2.fc8 my setup is treated as one common area 
> and a single screensaver is launched in the middle. It looks kinda ugly, 
> because of the significantly different resolution between  the display 
> devices.
> 
> So I am wondering whether the current behavior this is a bug or feature 
> and is it possible to turn back the old behavior without rolling back to 
> the previous version? Maybe some command-line parameter?
> 

It may be that I cannot solve your problem, however would you tell me
what "xscreensaver -verbose" say (after once you stop xscreensaver by
"xscreensaver-command -exit")?

Mamoru




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