Ubuntu 10.10 + ATI + dual monitors

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playground2011-03-14 18:23:58

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playground, 2011-03-14 18:23:58

Catalyst screenshot: yfrog.com/hs77xp

1 is a laptop monitor, 2 is an external monitor. The problem is that the gray area under monitor 1 also appears to be the desktop, although it is not visible on the screen. Accordingly, the mouse constantly “falls through” there. Not that it is critical, but wildly unnerving. Here Catalyst writes - "Desktop area: 3046x1050", i.e. the desktop is rectangular, but I need it to consist of two rectangles of different sizes. How to achieve this? I googled a lot, read about xorg.conf, but I didn’t understand how to solve exactly my problem.

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Max Freeman, 2011-03-14
@Mawerik

Weird. I did not set CCC at all on 10.10. He even on Windows infuriates me. Try without it, set it using standard means. Just a month ago I connected the monitor to the laptop and everything worked fine. But there was a problem with overheating (driver).

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Riateche, 2011-03-15
@Riateche

It seems to me that this is impossible. A rectangular desktop is the norm in such cases.
It is possible to use panning for a small monitor, but this is not very convenient and I have only seen support for this feature in nvidia drivers.
Theoretically, it is possible to programmatically move the mouse cursor and windows from the "dead" area, but I have not seen this implementation.

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gaelpa, 2011-03-15
@gaelpa

Worried that the mouse falls through or that access to the bottom edge is difficult?
My CairoDock reacts to the bottom edge, so I just align the monitors along the bottom edge, moving the "dead zone" up.

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eudj1n, 2011-03-15
@eudj1n

Ubuntu 10.10 + ATI:
One
Two
In the second tab (Multiple Displays), "Multiple Display Desktop with Display(s)" is selected.
The gray area (seen in screenshot 1) is the same as yours, but the mouse does not fall through there.