Gnome Panels and Xinerama

[Heiko Joerg Schick]

Hello Hugh,

I have similar problems. I don't use Xinerama, because my displays uses
different solutions.

Beside this, the behaviours are same, like:

(1): some Applets could not used on both displays, or they crashes
(2): the panel could _not_ configured via pressing with the right
     mouse button on it and go to "Preferences". If yes, the panel crashes
     and all / some settings are lost.

I've configured the complete second display via gconf-editor by hand.
By the way, KDE has some similar problems :)

If someone is interessted, I can write a more detailed report
(about my expericences with dual head and window managers).

Regards,
    Heiko

Hugh Caley wrote:

> I've found that Gnome is not very stable in Fedora, at least not with 
> dual monitors.
> If I use Xinerama I can't get the panel(s) to show up at all.
>
> Without Xinerama they come up, but any attempt to modify the panel on 
> the secondary monitor crashes and restarts the window manager.
>
> I'm running Fedora Core 1 with all updates and a Matrox G550 dual 
> video display.
> Hugh
>