Is there a way to disable the effects which happens when pressing the windows button or when clicking per display connected to the computer?
If you need a use case where this is turning out to be terrible sit down in your living room with your partner hook your laptop to your tv via hdmi start playing the latest episode of your partner favourite show.
Notice that pressing the window button on the keyboard or moving the mouse to "Activities" will produce a sound from you partner at the same time that will distracts you from the work you a trying to get done on the laptop at the same time....
JBG
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 08:41 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
Is there a way to disable the effects which happens when pressing the windows button or when clicking per display connected to the computer?
If you need a use case where this is turning out to be terrible sit down in your living room with your partner hook your laptop to your tv via hdmi start playing the latest episode of your partner favourite show.
Notice that pressing the window button on the keyboard or moving the mouse to "Activities" will produce a sound from you partner at the same time that will distracts you from the work you a trying to get done on the laptop at the same time....
there's gotta be a point at which we can't consider every possible use case, and this has to be close to it. Frankly, if you want to run completely different things on two displays connected to the same computer, I'd suggest you should probably be running one X session per head; right now you're quite badly abusing the concept of a desktop session.
On 17 May 2011 18:54, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 08:41 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
Is there a way to disable the effects which happens when pressing the windows button or when clicking per display connected to the computer?
If you need a use case where this is turning out to be terrible sit down in your living room with your partner hook your laptop to your tv via hdmi start playing the latest episode of your partner favourite show.
Notice that pressing the window button on the keyboard or moving the mouse to "Activities" will produce a sound from you partner at the same time that will distracts you from the work you a trying to get done on the laptop at the same time....
there's gotta be a point at which we can't consider every possible use case, and this has to be close to it. Frankly, if you want to run completely different things on two displays connected to the same computer, I'd suggest you should probably be running one X session per head; right now you're quite badly abusing the concept of a desktop session.
This case could fit into the current design though. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646249#c2.
Rui
On 05/17/2011 06:19 PM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote:
This case could fit into the current design though. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646249#c2
Yup and per your comment 2 when an app is in fullscreen mode it would not cover presentation usage since you might have tiled up several application on the second or more displays + what would happen if that application itself blocks the primary display
The only viable option I see is having the ability to turn off overview on everything ( or selected ) monitors but what is set as the primary display.
JBG
On 05/17/2011 05:54 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 08:41 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
Is there a way to disable the effects which happens when pressing the windows button or when clicking per display connected to the computer?
If you need a use case where this is turning out to be terrible sit down in your living room with your partner hook your laptop to your tv via hdmi start playing the latest episode of your partner favourite show.
Notice that pressing the window button on the keyboard or moving the mouse to "Activities" will produce a sound from you partner at the same time that will distracts you from the work you a trying to get done on the laptop at the same time....
there's gotta be a point at which we can't consider every possible use case, and this has to be close to it. Frankly, if you want to run completely different things on two displays connected to the same computer, I'd suggest you should probably be running one X session per head; right now you're quite badly abusing the concept of a desktop session.
Since you are accusing me to be "badly abusing the concept of a desktop session" please enlighten me on what the concept of an desktop session is and what are the correct usage of it and I'm pretty sure the Gnome Developers would also like to hear what the correct usage of multi display setup should behave in Gnome since last time I checked they had not figured out themselves.
The same problem exist if you are doing a presentation on a projector hook up to your laptop on a conference and you want to do some work on the laptop without that work interrupting what's being presented to the audience.
Having the ability to have the effects tied only to what is considered to be a primary monitory does not seem to be unreasonable to me since you dont want to disrupt what's being presented to you or audience on a different display then primary one and the current Gnome-shell effects currently does that each time you press the window button or move the mouse pointer to activities.
JBG
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