xscreensaver on dual-monitor setup

Mamoru Tasaka mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Wed Jul 30 07:01:49 UTC 2008


Mamoru Tasaka wrote, at 07/30/2008 04:00 PM +9:00:
> 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

Or file a bug against xscreensaver so that we can discuss there.

Mamoru




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