10.4.3 Breaks X11 windows on multi-monitor setup

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10.4.3 Breaks X11 windows on multi-monitor setup

I often run a 1680x1050 display as my primary, and have X11 applications (particularly Xnest) set to open full-sized using a -geometry 1680x1050. When my powerbook sits to the left of the screen the window now defaults to opening there, but limited to it's max resolution, which is much less than my 1680x1050. A royal pain for running an X11 window manager to a remote machine. This used to work correctly, allowing me to resize the window up to the -geometry spec'd size.
Anyone know a way to tell X11 which screen to open the window on?

Paul

Posted on Nov 5, 2005 3:23 PM

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Nov 17, 2005 6:27 AM in response to Paul Lalonde

I can't really help you, but I was wondering how you got it to work in the first place.

I've done alot of configging allready and crushed most of the problems. I can run individual programs, but not a complete kde session. I was trying to do it like this:
Xnest :1 -geometry 800x600 -query localhost
Witch crashes with:
Unable to initialize XKEYBOARD extension.

I've told the xorg.conf not to use Xkb but it didn't help.

As for your problem, maybe you need to configure xorg.conf to accept higher resolutions?

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