[kde-freebsd] dual head under kde4

[Kris Moore]

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> - --On Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:09:30 -0400 Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.com> 
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>> I've used dual-head with KDE4 here a bit, and it seems to work fine with the
>> NVidia TwinView configuration. Whats different is that you have to manually
>> go to the new screen, and setup your desktop wallpaper there, along with any
>> widgets you want to place. It looks like the panel isn't able to stretch
>> across both screens anymore, although you can always add a 2nd panel on the
>> new screen, and add widgets to it.
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> Hrmmm ... I just tried restarting X with xinermira(sp?) support enabled, and 
> get odd results as my monitors are two different sizes ... under KDE3, there 
> was a way of starting up a second WM / desktop on Screen 2, vs Screen 1 .. I 
> couldn' tmove windows between monitors, but could cut-n-paste between monitors, 
> and start applications on each ... but they were totally independent otherwise 
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> Is that functionality gone with KDE4?  I'd hate to have to downgrade back to 
> KDE3 :(
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> My nVidia card is: nvidia0: <GeForce 7900 GS> on vgapci0 ... and I'm using the 
> nvidia kernel module ...
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Marc,

I've attached my xorg.conf file. It is configured using "twinview" that 
the nvidia driver support. In my System Settings -> Display -> Size & 
Orientation program, it shows up as one large desktop.

That being said, I did just upgrade my dual-head system to KDE 4.1, and 
I can confirm that there is a bug in it now that wasn't present in 
beta2. When I first logged in, I had a working desktop on my first 
screen, to the left, but on my right screen it was just grey. I could 
move my mouse over to the new screen, and draw working programs over, 
but it appeared that Plasma was not being started on the 2nd screen 
properly.

I've also found a bug report relating to this on bugs.kde.org:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164242

You should go vote for it, and maybe we can get this fixed right away. 
Also, I did manage to get Plasma started on the 2nd screen, if you read 
my comments on the bug report, you'll see it.


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Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software



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