[Gambas-user] Window position error on applying stored "geometry"

[RICHARD WALKER]

It will take a little more time to tell. It has been many years since
I last built Gambas from source so I have quite a bit of research and
preparation to do first.

R

On 05/06/2012, Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...> wrote:
> Le 05/06/2012 04:23, RICHARD WALKER a écrit :
>>> I am using two tools which are packaged for Mageia, so should be
>>> fairly common in most distros; Xephyr and Xdmx - both X-servers. The
>>> difficulty is in getting the magic right for input events.  More, as
>>> soon as...
>>
>> Success. I eventually ran into a bit of a brick wall trying to use
>> Xdmx as the xinerama "harness" for the two Xephyr screens. The only
>> sane way to use it (and it works) is with a dummy console used to
>> track the mouse cursor. Getting the keyboard to work was problematic.
>> In the end I tripped over another way of faking xinerama on a single
>> Xephyr screen.
>>
>> I present to you a short bash script which will start a Xephyr X
>> server with dimensions you choose which will be split (invisibly) into
>> two pseudo-monitors by a specially crafted fake libXinerama (source
>> linked in the bash script) and user-specific ~/.fakexinerama
>> configuration file.
>>
>> I can confirm that this environment will demonstrate the issue with my
>> test-bed project, though you will have to judge for yourself where the
>> second half of the xinerama screen starts:-)
>> I had to tweak the project a tiny bit to try to accommodate the
>> changed screen resolution as I use a form width and height check to
>> tell me if the previous run had crashed - sloppy, yes; sorry? Yes.
>> Quick and dirty, but it'll do, I reckon.
>>
>> Richard
>>
>
> Thanks. I could deal with it.
>
> Is it better now with revision #4808?
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
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