Allow positioning of (gnome) panels

[wvengen]

Placement of (gnome) desktop panels is not always as desired.
It may be a good idea to add an option for specifying panel location, as described on
http://blog.twinapex.fi/2009/07/14/autoconfiguring-dual-monitors-on-ubuntu/

[wvengen (wvengen)]

It still is a little hard to determine which panels should be moved actually, because there can be several subkeys of /apps/panel/toplevels/. Specifying all the panel names on the command-line would be a little unpractical.

It would be quite useful as of the import/export functionality.

This could best be implemented as a plugin ... that'll require a plugin framework.

[wvengen (wvengen)]

Oh, and if anyone knows how to do this sort of thing for KDE, please mention it here!

[wvengen (wvengen)]

depends on bug #469114

[Mads Chr. Olesen (shiyee)]

Although not a complete fix for all setups, setting the "primary display" in the Nvidia GUI moves the gnome-panel to the primary display. The primary display setting actually only involves setting the xinerama info order.

I have attached a patch to:
  Import and export the xinerama info order in nvidia switcher.
  This sets the "primary display" in the nvidia GUI, allowing the gnome-panel to move to the primary display.

For some reason the first switch or two does not move the panel, but subsequent switches does.

[Mads Chr. Olesen (shiyee)]

Just realized that I could just create a branch - branch now attached.

[wvengen (wvengen)]

Thanks, I completely forgot about import/export in this.
Proposed merge at https://code.launchpad.net/~shiyee/disper/import-export-xio-info/+merge/26786

[wvengen (wvengen)]

finally committed to trunk, will be present in disper 0.2.4. Thanks again!

[Vladimir Prus (vladimir-prus)]

FWIW, trunk appears to work just fine with KDE 4.6 -- the panel is automatically placed on the "primary" monitor.