Plasma and TwinView [Was Re: Release schedule clarifications]

[Lukas Appelhans]

Hi everyone!
After Aaron's commit today, it works a lot faster now, so I can use it...
But if you need another DualView-Tester, I can do the job...


Cheers

Lukas

Am Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2007 20:20:55 schrieb Andras Mantia:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > i have no xinerama systems to test on here. people will come in to
> > #plasma and complain about it and will sometimes give some minimal
> > system information, but we *really* need someone with a xinerama set
> > up to test on and work on these things.
>
> Guys, I have good news. :) Almost all the slowness gone away as soon as
> I disabled the second screen! Even the K Menu appeared (altough the
> reason for this might be that I removed the .kde4 directory). Now the
> highest CPU usage I could see was around 10% by Xorg. But the desktop
> was in general responsive.
>  Aaron, how can I help to debug and fix the problem with this setup? I
> don't know what kind of graphics card you have, but with NVidia cards
> you can enable the second screen (be it a TV or another monitor) in a
> so-called TwinView mode. The second screen can be a part of your main
> screen, or it can be at the left/top/bottom/right of it, not
> necessarily connected to the main screen and not necessarily aligned to
> it at the edges. I think Xinerama can also do this, but that never
> worked for me correctly in KDE3, while the NVidia mode works.
> In my case it was defined to be at right, aligned to the right edge, and
> the top of both screens are also aligned. So I have big screen
> (1600x1200) and a smaller one (800x600). In KDE3 with this setup the
> two screens were completely independent. Kicker was only on the first
> screen, and also the background image did not flow through the screens,
> but there was one background image on each one (scaled to the
> corresponding resolution). This setup was handy, as I could work on the
> main screen without taking care of the other (the only problem was that
> I could drag any window there), while when I started to movie, I could
> move it to the second screen and make it full screen there.
>  With KDE4, I didn't check what was on the second screen as I usually
> don't have the TV turned on when I work, or if it is, my wife is
> watching it (like now). :) But on the main screen nothing was unusual,
> the panel had the right size, the toolbox in the top-right corner
> appeared correctly, windows were appearing here. Just that it was using
> the CPU a lot.
>
>  Again, let me know how can I help to fix this issue.
>
> Andras