XQuartz on OS X 10.9 and later: limited support for multi-monitor setups
Bug #1244397 reported by
Kuni H Iwasa
This bug affects 34 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
inkscape (Arch Linux) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Version 0.48 has a problem of using two monitors running on os x 10.9 mavericks. In the main monitor, the window behaves normally but in the secondary window it does not allow to change the location. It got stuck in the upper left corner. When it was dragged from the main monitor to the secondary one, it disappears. The program is still usable, but not normal. Gimp, which also uses x11, does not have this problem.
tags: | added: osx |
summary: |
- OS X Mavericks/XQuartz: limited support for multi-monitor setups + XQuartz on OS X 10.9 and later: limited support for multi-monitor setups |
Changed in inkscape: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
milestone: | none → 1.0 |
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Kuni H Iwasa wrote:
> Gimp, which also uses x11, does not have this problem.
Note that current official GIMP packages do no longer use X11 - they are all built with the Quartz backend of GTK2. Do you have any other GTK+ applications installed which use the X11-backend of GTK+?
Possibly related: a XQuartz issue with multi-monitor setup on Mavericks just discussed on the X11-user mailing list lists.apple. com/archives/ x11-users/ 2013/Oct/ msg00003. html>
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On 2013-10-24 10:40 +0200, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
>> Um... I installed Mavericks on a two-monitor system today, and
>> after finding (in what's becoming an Apple tradition) the
>> unlikely location of the controls for freeing the displays to act
>> as they have since OS 6 or so (that is, one large, contiguous
>> piece of pixel real estate), was able to run an animation that
>> spans the two displays, as the system has since 10.6.
>>
>> The controls I used were in the System Preference pane for
>> Mission Control. I unchecked all boxes, but the relevant one is
>> "Displays have separate spaces." Doing so also allows application
>> windows to span displays, instead of fading out on one.
>>
>> (…)
>
> Yes, disabling that checkbox returns you to a "legacy mode" of sorts.
> XQuartz will behave nicer with multiple monitors in that mode, but
> you will loose out on all the useful updates to multi-monitor
> support.
>
> This incompatibility with multi-monitor support is a known issue, and
> the fix requires changes to both XQuartz (specifically libXplugin)
> and OS frameworks. Unfortunately, this means that I won't be able
> to address the bug with an XQuartz update, and you'll have to wait
> for the OS-side of the solution in a future OS update.
>
> Hopefully the "disable Displays have separate spaces" workaround will
> be a satisfactory stop-gap until the issue is fixed in a future
> update.
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