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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=385553

On machines with Intel 915 graphics chipsets and buggy X drivers which
report an always-on VGA output, Metacity doesn't maximize windows to
the full size of the display.

This makes Metacity consider two overlapping monitors anchored at (0,
0) to be a *single* monitor ("clone mode"); it uses the largest
geometry of the monitors for the screen's purposes.

diff --git a/src/core/screen.c b/src/core/screen.c
index 419b537..8dffbc2 100644
--- a/src/core/screen.c
+++ b/src/core/screen.c
@@ -190,6 +190,87 @@ set_wm_icon_size_hint (MetaScreen *screen)
 }
 
 static void
+xinerama_screen_info_to_rect (XineramaScreenInfo *info, MetaRectangle *r)
+{
+  r->x      = info->x_org;
+  r->y      = info->y_org;
+  r->width  = info->width;
+  r->height = info->height;
+}
+
+static XineramaScreenInfo
+pick_biggest_geometry (XineramaScreenInfo *infos, int n_infos)
+{
+  long max_pixels;
+  int largest_index;
+  int i;
+
+  max_pixels = 0;
+  largest_index = 0;
+
+  for (i = 0; i < n_infos; i++)
+    {
+      long pixels;
+
+      pixels = (long) infos[i].width * infos[i].height;
+
+      if (pixels > max_pixels)
+	{
+	  max_pixels = pixels;
+	  largest_index = i;
+	}
+    }
+
+  return infos[largest_index];
+}
+
+static void
+sanitize_xinerama_infos (XineramaScreenInfo *infos, int n_infos, int *n_infos_ret)
+{
+  if (n_infos == 2)
+    {
+      /* https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=310208
+       * https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=385553
+       *
+       * The X driver for Intel 915GM chipsets has/had a bug where it would
+       * report that laptops started with a VGA output connected, and most
+       * of the time it defaults to a resolution of 1024x768.  This doesn't
+       * match the resolution of the laptop, which these days is big and fancy.
+       *
+       * Both monitors (the VGA output's and the laptop's) *overlap* in the Xinerama
+       * configuration, since that is how "clone the display" is implemented.
+       * So, we see if there are only two monitors *and* if they intersect --- in
+       * that case, we can be reasonably confident that we can just pick the bigger
+       * monitor, which will be the laptop's display.
+       *
+       * This shouldn't break real setups with "make a big screen out of two monitors",
+       * since those monitors don't overlap in the Xinerama configuration.
+       *
+       * To summarize: in the case of just two overlapping monitors ("laptop
+       * plus cloned external display"), we simulate that we have only *one* monitor.
+       */
+
+      MetaRectangle a, b, dummy;
+
+      xinerama_screen_info_to_rect (infos, &a);
+      xinerama_screen_info_to_rect (infos + 1, &b);
+
+      if (meta_rectangle_intersect (&a, &b, &dummy)
+          && a.x == 0 && a.y == 0
+          && b.x == 0 && b.y == 0)
+        {
+          XineramaScreenInfo biggest;
+
+          biggest = pick_biggest_geometry (infos, n_infos);
+
+          infos[0] = biggest;
+          infos[0].screen_number = 0;
+          *n_infos_ret = 1;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+static void
 reload_xinerama_infos (MetaScreen *screen)
 {
   MetaDisplay *display;
@@ -228,6 +309,7 @@ reload_xinerama_infos (MetaScreen *screen)
       
       n_infos = 0;
       infos = XineramaQueryScreens (display->xdisplay, &n_infos);
+      sanitize_xinerama_infos (infos, n_infos, &n_infos);
 
       meta_topic (META_DEBUG_XINERAMA,
                   "Found %d Xinerama screens on display %s\n",

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