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Thinstation / thinstation

A framework for making thin and light Linux based images for x86 based machines and thinclients.
https://www.thinstation.net/
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thinstation 5.2 + thinlinc = no correct multi-monitor setup in remote session #45

Closed jens-maus closed 10 years ago

jens-maus commented 10 years ago

Please note the following reported issues to the makers of ThinLinc:

https://www.cendio.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5182

Here I reported a problem with the latest Thinstation version 5.2 which comes with Xorg 7.7 and doesn't seem to correctly setup multi-monitor sessions. I would be curious if someone can reproduce the problem with ThinLinc and Thinstation 5.2 and see where the problem might be originating from. Also note that running freerdp in the same multi-monitor setup doesn't show that problem seeing a correct multi-monitor freerdp session being setup.

Hints on how to debug this situation are welcome.

jens-maus commented 10 years ago

Please note that the problem was due to the use of the "openbox" window manager which is missing implementations for the following X protocol extensions (ThinLinc require these for correct multi-monitor use):

_NET_WM_ACTION_FULLSCREEN _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN _NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS

After having switched to xfwm4 the problem disappeared. In fact, I am using a minimalistic xfwm4 setup now providing the same simplicity and lightweight environment like openbox.