Bug#199520: metacity ignores fullscreen windows

[Alain Schroeder]

Am Mittwoch, den 19.09.2007, 19:28 +0200 schrieb Sven Arvidsson:
> On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 20:25 +0200, Matthias Bläsing wrote:
> > I have a part time dual-head setup. When I run a video on the second
> > screen in full screen mode (using totem or xine), I can be quite sure,
> > that every new window is opened under the full screen window. It seems,
> > that metacity ignores the window. 

> This part isn't limited to a dual-head setup is it? I can reproduce it,
> but I'm not sure if I would call this a bug.

I have the same problem and while this is not limited to a dual-head
setup, it makes the problem even more annoying.

> > So basicly I can't really use the
> > system in this mode, as I have to switch out of full screenmode, move
> > the window to the "normal" first screen and switch back to full screen
> > again.
> 
> Isn't the actual bug that the window doesn't appear on the right
> screen? 

The Bug is, that new windows don't appear on the currently active
screen, aka where the mouse is. If you have an additional screen which
is dedicated to another program, this gets even more annoying.

> Are you using Xinerama or something else?

I had a mergedfb setup with this problem and I just switched to xrandr,
which shows exactly the same problem.

Bye,
  Alain