Bug 51261 - MacOS Menubar doesn't work well with Xinerama
Summary: MacOS Menubar doesn't work well with Xinerama
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kde
Classification: I don't know
Component: xinerama (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lubos Lunak
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: 71485 71486 83371 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2002-11-27 19:09 UTC by Alexander Gran
Modified: 2009-04-07 22:54 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Alexander Gran 2002-11-27 19:09:42 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.0.4)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

I'm using Xinerama on two 1024*768 screen, making 2048*768 in total. But I'd like to use the MacOs Toolbar, which doesn't work well: It is just on the left Monitor, which isn't optimal: I have to go over two screens when working on the right monitor(which i use most times). Scaling the toolbar over both screens wouldn't be good as well, as it would still be to far. Is it possible to create 2 independent Toolbars, one on each monitor?
Comment 1 Alexander Gran 2002-11-27 19:11:25 UTC 
btw: I'm using KDE 3.0.5...could not choose this.
Comment 2 Mathieu Jobin 2003-01-24 23:02:34 UTC 
should not be more a kdesktop bug instead of kwin ?
Comment 3 Alexander Gran 2003-01-25 18:29:05 UTC 
Sorry, don't know. I thought kwin was the only Xinerama aware KDE-Program.
Comment 4 George Staikos 2003-03-06 21:12:03 UTC 
I sohuld be able to fix this for 3.2.
Comment 5 Mathieu Jobin 2003-10-29 02:57:20 UTC 
AFAIK the MacOS bar will be replaced simply by an extention to kicker with needed kicker applet. That would make this bug obsolete, since I guess kicker works fine with Xinerama.
Comment 6 Lubos Lunak 2004-02-19 17:24:36 UTC 
*** Bug 71486 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Lubos Lunak 2004-02-19 17:26:03 UTC 
*** Bug 71485 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Lubos Lunak 2004-06-16 11:47:13 UTC 
*** Bug 83371 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Cédric Bellegarde 2004-08-23 15:25:42 UTC 
bugs always here with kde 3.3 :/
Using kicker menu applet does not help!
George Staikos, it will be cool if you can fix it for kde 3.3.1 :D
Comment 10 Tassilo Horn 2006-10-16 08:46:45 UTC 
Still not possible in KDE 3.5.5.

Maybe it should be added to the KDE4 wish list.
Comment 11 Ritesh Raj Sarraf 2007-01-24 20:24:58 UTC 
Currently, kicker doesn't allow the menus of applications to appear into it. This is a killer feature in the Mac OS X menubar because it saves space by drawing the menu buttons in the menubar.

If kicker can be fixed to allow application menu to be integrated into it, we can move away from Mac OS X menubar. Else it'd be better to fix the Mac OS X menubar.

I don't agree with Alexander's point of having two separate Mac OS X menubar in a Xinerama setup. Ideally Mac OS X menubar, in a Xinerama setup, should draw itself on the primary screen, just like kicker does.
Comment 12 Mathieu Jobin 2007-01-25 03:30:58 UTC 
on a Mac the menu bar is only on one screen.
Comment 13 Ritesh Raj Sarraf 2007-07-28 19:17:44 UTC 
Hi Lubos,

Will this be fixed in KDE 4.0 ?

Please. I'm now on a 12" laptop and would like to utilize the space to the most.
Comment 14 Jo Stringer 2007-11-25 23:28:49 UTC 
Just verifying this bug still exists on 3.5.8 - is there much chance for it to be fixed in 3.5.9 or something?
Comment 15 Lubos Lunak 2007-11-29 17:12:33 UTC 
Unlikely, sorry, the fix is not trivial.
Comment 16 George Goldberg 2009-04-07 22:54:55 UTC 
If the Mac Bar was reimplemented again in KDE 4, it would be a fresh implementation on top of Plasma, which means this bug report doesn't make much sense for it. It is pretty much certain this won't be fixed in KDE 3 now, so I'm going to close this report as UNMAINTAINED, since it seems the most accurate resolution.