OT: Who owns the desktop?

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>

> You can get geometry of the desktop in pTk. Not sure about what it does
> with multi-head displays. It predates most multi-head display setups.
> Unknown.

Note that the problem here is that *the X server doesn't know* the screen
is spread over 2 monitors, *because the video card is lying to it*.

This is not at all uncommon.
 
Cheers,
-- jra
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