Whats the best / easiest way to prevent full screen apps in linux from spanning all monitors. In windows a full screen app will only take over 1 monitor.
It depends on your graphics setup and your window manager.
For example, I use an nvidia card with 2 outputs. Using the nvidia config utility I can specify the screen layout, which gives me 2 xinerama screens. Nvidia call this facility TwinView.
xmonad is my window manager which can handle multiple screens quite easily. All modern WMs should handle this correctly.
I think this is usually dependent on your window manager. In WindowMaker, this doesn't happen unless the app figures out the resolution itself and then changes window size to that, as opposed to letting the window manager handle that itself.
Works perfectly fine on Debian/Ubuntu with the nVidia drivers. You have given us very little info but I think I remember having this problem with ATI drivers a while back.
It depends on your graphics setup and your window manager.
For example, I use an nvidia card with 2 outputs. Using the nvidia config utility I can specify the screen layout, which gives me 2 xinerama screens. Nvidia call this facility TwinView.
xmonad is my window manager which can handle multiple screens quite easily. All modern WMs should handle this correctly.
I think this is usually dependent on your window manager. In WindowMaker, this doesn't happen unless the app figures out the resolution itself and then changes window size to that, as opposed to letting the window manager handle that itself.
Works perfectly fine on Debian/Ubuntu with the nVidia drivers. You have given us very little info but I think I remember having this problem with ATI drivers a while back.