xscreensaver on dual-monitor setup

[oleksandr korneta]

on 07/30/2008 03:01 AM Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> 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")?


here you are:

xscreensaver 5.06, copyright (c) 1991-2008 by Jamie Zawinski <jwz at jwz.org>.
xscreensaver: 08:46:46: running as sashko/users (501/100)
xscreensaver: 08:46:46: in process 9767.
xscreensaver: 08:46:46: running on display ":0.0"
xscreensaver: 08:46:46: vendor is The X.Org Foundation, 10300000.
xscreensaver: 08:46:46: useful extensions:
xscreensaver: 08:46:46:   MIT Screen-Saver (disabled at compile time)
xscreensaver: 08:46:46:   Shared Memory
xscreensaver: 08:46:46:   Double-Buffering
xscreensaver: 08:46:46:   Power Management
xscreensaver: 08:46:46:   GLX
xscreensaver: 08:46:46:   XF86 Video-Mode
xscreensaver: 08:46:46:   Xinerama
xscreensaver: 08:46:46:   Resize-and-Rotate
xscreensaver: 08:46:46: screen 0 non-colormapped depths: 0 24.
xscreensaver: 08:46:46: screens in use: 1
xscreensaver: 08:46:46:    0/0: 2480x1050+0+0 (default)
xscreensaver: 08:46:46: selecting RANDR events
xscreensaver: 08:46:46: consulting /proc/interrupts for keyboard activity.
xscreensaver: 08:46:46: 0: visual 0x21 (TrueColor,   depth: 24, cmap: 
default)
xscreensaver: 08:46:46: 0: saver window is 0x800001.
xscreensaver: 08:46:46: selecting events on extant windows... done.
xscreensaver: 08:46:46: awaiting idleness.

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

it is my understanding that filing a bug in this case means sending the 
message to jwz at jwz.org, or do you mean fedora's bugtracker?

-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

I'm running FC7 x86_64 and FC8 i386 on x86_64 hardware, should this matter.

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