gnome-do can't intellihide very well on multiple monitors of different sizes

[Chris Jones]

Binary package hint: gnome-do

I have two monitors, the secondary of which is larger than the primary, so there is some dead space below the primary monitor which I cannot see (but my mouse pointer can stray into).
Since Do is on the primary monitor, at the bottom, and set to Intellihide, I can't summon it by moving to the bottom of the primary monitor, presumably because that's not actually an edge.
Perhaps Do could try to be clever and notice that there is dead space there and make its edge detection mechanism actually detect the mouse being in that entire dead space?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 6 10:52:42 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-do 0.8.2+dfsg-1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-do
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

I've noticed that if I hover at the right point at the edge of the screen I can make it work, but it's obviously quite tricky - can the window being used for edge detection just be made larger?

[Chris S. (cszikszoy)]

How are your multiple monitors set up? What hardware are you using
(actually, what drivers, nvidia binary, catalyst, opensource)? I
think in all of the different drivers they will allow you to line up
where the screen edges are by dragging the monitor and aligning either
the bottom or top of the monitor to the other.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Chris Jones <email address hidden> wrote:
> I've noticed that if I hover at the right point at the edge of the
> screen I can make it work, but it's obviously quite tricky - can the
> window being used for edge detection just be made larger?
>
> --
> gnome-do can't intellihide very well on multiple monitors of different sizes
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444417
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-do
>
> I have two monitors, the secondary of which is larger than the primary, so there is some dead space below the primary monitor which I cannot see (but my mouse pointer can stray into).
> Since Do is on the primary monitor, at the bottom, and set to Intellihide, I can't summon it by moving to the bottom of the primary monitor, presumably because that's not actually an edge.
> Perhaps Do could try to be clever and notice that there is dead space there and make its edge detection mechanism actually detect the mouse being in that entire dead space?
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Tue Oct  6 10:52:42 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> Package: gnome-do 0.8.2+dfsg-1
> ProcEnviron:
>  PATH=(custom, user)
>  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
> SourcePackage: gnome-do
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
>

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

It's an Intel G45M (known at X4500HD at parties) chipset with an internal laptop panel at 1440x900, with a separate monitor to the right at 1680x1050. The top edges of the displays is aligned.

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That's my attempt at an ascii representation, probably didn't come out well.

You're right that I could line up the bottom edges, but then I lose all the Fitt's goodness on things like the Applications menu in my top panel, and all the applets up there. Not a great compromise!