[Appeal] Translucency: Second try

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Friday 22 April 2005 02:01, Hans Oischinger wrote:
> From what I know there are many different "multiple desktop" solutions
> provided by the gfx drivers themselves.
> Do I have to test it for nvidia's TwinView, too or can I assume that it
> works once it works in Xinerama?

yes, TwinView is just their (non-sucky) Xinerama implementation.

> I thought KGlobalSettings::splashScreenDesktopGeometry() gives me the width
> of all screens summed up. Is this not the case with Xinerama?

nope. it centers it on a screen. otherwise you'd get splas screens that appear 
with half on one screen and half on the other.

> How is geometry handled there?. Any KDELibs API that can help me find the
> right screens and geometry apart from QDesktopWidget (which already gave me
> nightmares in Komposé).

QDesktopWidget is what you want... and it's not too, too bad...

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Aaron J. Seigo
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