[kde-linux] Re: KDE multiple desktop effects vs NVidia TwinView/normal 2-head xorg.conf

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net> wrote:
> Mark Knecht posted on Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:08:15 -0700 as excerpted:
>
>> I've been using an xorg.conf built around NVidia TwinView which
>> combines two monitors into a single screen. This has worked very well
>> for me. Two effects I appreciate quite a lot are
>>
>> 1) Ctrl-F8 showing me all 6 desktops I have setup
>>
>> 2) Drag my mouse to upper left corner which shows all running apps in a
>> single desktop allowing me to choose one
>>
>> To use that setup I have to disable the xinerama USE flag on the Gentoo
>> ebuilds.
>>
>> Yesterday I decide to create a more standard, non-TwinView
>> xorg.conf file. I got that working with the xinerama USE flag enabled
>> and found that neither of the two feature above seemed to work at all.
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>> 1) Should these features have stopped working? (I believe not...)
>
> They should still work, but the config and hotkeys may be different, now.
>

Duncan,
   This is a REALL great post, and I thin will be helpful, but it's
goign to take me a few days before I can get to it. Just wanted to say
thanks now for the effort you put into the response.

   I'll get back later with the results and more questions if necessary.

Cheers,
Mark