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Use a simple taskbar to organize X11 windows
Authored by: chicorico81@hotm on Aug 06, '03 12:01:10PM

fspanel, being rather lightweight, doesn't have xinerama support right now (though that might be kinda cool to add) - I actually have a similar setup to what you describe (tibook with part-time external monitor), which is why i added command line arguments for setting the panel's position and whatnot as somewhat of an interim solution.
My external monitor, when attached, is above and to the left of my tibook lcd, so i use:
fspanel -j -l 1152 -r 0
this keeps the panel pinned to the right side of the screen bounds (-j)
and it sticks out 1152 pixels from the right screen edge (-l 1152 -r 0) so it always fits on my my tibook screen with or without external monitor...
If there's no "one-size-fits-all" configuration for you, you could stick two or more different command variations in the X11 programs menu; one for with the external monitor and one for without, calling the proper one by hand after starting X11 instead of having it in the .xinitrc file....
hope this helps..



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