[MPlayer-users] Single display output with Mplayer, using Xinerama on an Radeon 8500?

[Jukka Tastula]

On Wednesday 18 September 2002 21:46, Maytag wrote:

> I'm running Gentoo 1.4, with Gnome 2.0.1 and Xfree 4.2.0r12. I'm running
> the latest DRI driver (http://dri.sourceforge.net) for my Radeon 8500,
> the r200 driver.
> I'm trying to get Mplayer to output to one screen... when I open it
> gmplayer with no options it opens ok, but stretches across the length of
> both monitors. This creates somewhat broken viewing, as it centers the
> video stream in the middle of the two monitors (and breaks it

You're missing the fact that gtk+ itself doesn't seem to have any xinerama 
support (or at least they made it very hard to enable) so every program has 
to support it all on its own. Same thing happens for example with gqview 
fullscreen mode (except 1.1.5 which finally has xinerama support) and just 
about every gtk+ app I've used. I still can't understand how X has had 
support for zillion screens for ages but it still doesn't work right with all 
software :)

So forget the broken and buggy gui and gnome; use kde and command line :-)