Ubuntu
gnome-session package

Launch two compiz processes if we have 2 X screens

Bug #1108311 reported by James M. Leddy
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Bug Description

Recently, compiz dropped support for multiple X screens. I discussed with Sam Spilsbury about it, his answer is pasted below.

> There is no support for Multiple X screens in compiz, this was removed in
> 0.9 and will not be added back because it adds further instability.
>
> The recommended configuration is to run one compiz instance per screen.
> This should be done through a patch to gnome-session, or we can have a wrapper script
> which will launch one instance per screen.

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James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

Seems an unlikely case to support, but would be in the session as the comment says, not the display manager.

affects: lightdm → gnome-session (Ubuntu)
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Ethan Joffe (ethan-n) wrote :

I would like to add my support for running 2 x screens at once.
I have searched many hours for a solution to this but always seem to come up against too many technical hurdles or roadblocks.
If there is a possible fix for this which just requires a patch to gnome-session, could someone please implement that.
This would make the many users I have encountered during my search for a solution to this extremely happy.
Maybe we could finally have a distro which supports multiple X Screens, each with its own set of panels, workspaces, etc.
Support for this seems to have been ignored for several years, since the days of gnome2.

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