Bug#184389: inconsistent treatment of dual monitors (gnome-panel vs. wnck-applet)

[Eric Cooper]

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.14.3-2
Followup-For: Bug #184389

I'm using a dual monitor setup, using the ATI driver's "MergedFB"
mode from the xserver-xorg-video-ati package.

xdpyinfo thinks I have one display and one screen, with width equal to
the sum of my two monitors' widths.  The Gnome desktop background goes
across both.  But as the original reporters of this bug said,
gnome-panel only extends across one physical monitor (and has, ever
since I started using this setup).  I turned this into a "feature" by
having two panels, one on each physical monitor, with different
applets in them.

Until recently, the "Window List Applet" (wnck-applet?) only showed
the windows on its monitor, which worked well with two panels + two
wnck-applets.

But today, *each* wnck-applet lists the windows on *both* monitors, so it is
much less useful.  I'd rather have a single panel across both
monitors, or the buggy-but-consistent behavior of limiting to one
monitor, but the inconsistency between panel and applet is the worst
of both.

Let me know if you'd like a screen shot.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-strat
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-about                2.14.3-1      The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-control-center       1:2.14.2-3+b1 utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-desktop-data         2.14.3-1      Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-menus                2.14.3-1      an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel-data           2.14.3-2      common files for GNOME 2 panel
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.17-1      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.12.2-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.14.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0             2.14.0-4      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                      2.3.6.ds1-4   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.2.4-1       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libecal1.2-6               1.6.3-1+b1    Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-7        1.6.3-1+b1    Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-6      1.6.3-1+b1    GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libgconf2-4                2.14.0-4      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.0-2     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.12.3-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2         2.14.3-1      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2             2.14.3-1      an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnome2-0                2.14.1-3      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.14.1-2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             2.14.2-2+b1   GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.8.20-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.0-2    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0         2.14.3-2      library for GNOME 2 panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.14.4-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck18                  2.14.3-1      Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.0-9     X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.1-2     X11 authorisation library
ii  menu-xdg                   0.2.3         freedesktop.org menu compliant win

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
pn  evolution-data-server        <none>      (no description available)
ii  gnome-applets                2.14.3-1+b1 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-session                2.14.3-1    The GNOME 2 Session Manager

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