Description of Problem: XFree86 has no problem managing multiple heads/screens, configured in a multiscreen (non-Xinerama) mode. Selecting a "Gnome" session from the gdm login screen, the resulting session only operates on the primary screen (:0.0). The secondary screens are unmanaged. Worse, a "xterm -display :0.1" produces an XTerm on the second screen, but metacity(?) refuses to grant focus to the second screen. I can click in it all I want, but can't type in it. The gnome session actively prevents use of the non-primary screens. Previous releases merely failed to manage them, but they were functionnal. Thank goodness I built an enlightmentment-0.16.5-5 rpm for psyche. My current workaround is to create an "enlightenment" session and use that to manage my environment. Fvwm2 and twm also work well across all heads (though Enlightenment rocks!) Bluecurve looks good, especially the improved font capability; It's quite usable and responsive on my single-screen laptop. But I can't use it on my multiscreen *business* desktops. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Redhat 8.0 Psyche How Reproducible: Always Expected Results: Minimum of window manager support on all screens (:0.0, :0.1, :0.2, ...). Nautilus and panel support on all screens would be nice. *Really* nice to be able to indendently configure Nautilus and the panels on a per-screen basis. So I can put one set of apps on screen 0, a different set of apps on screen 1, etc. Little point in having excessive redundancy. Additional Information: Graphics card is a Matrox g200-mms (4-head) Had to download and install the HAL XFree driver to properly initialize non-primary heads. Fault existed prior to (and after) installation of the matrox-supplied XFree drivers.
The man push for GNOME 2.2 is multihead support, we'll get the feature on upgrade. It's a huge patch set, so not something we can backport to 2.0. Will probably be there for the next Red Hat release, it's mostly done already.