KDE on two X screens madness
J. Ballé
joba123 at jomp.net
Mon Mar 1 20:42:58 GMT 2004
Hello everybody,
I've been using KDE 3.2 for a few days, and so far it has been a pleasure. I
love the new transparent kicker :-)
However, recently I bought a graphics card with a TV-out facility. I
successfully set up XFree to access my TV set as a separate X screen (:0.1)
while my monitor stayed on :0.0. I'm not using Xinerama since I don't want to
use my TV for anything except for an occasional "mplayer -display :0.1 ...".
Since I changed my X setup, KDE now opens a completely independent KDE session
on my TV when I log in. In the process table there are two instances of
kicker, kwin and kdesktop. This wouldn't be a problem if KDE hadn't started
behaving strangely. For example, now it always moves around the toolbars in
Konqueror when I change the window size, which makes me completely mad
because then, I can only see the first 50 pixels or so of the address tab. I
always have to move it back manually.
Also, I can't make the second screen appear in my native language (it always
appears in english) and some configuration dialogs (like the Kicker one)
always crash when I try to open them on the second screen. (I was trying to
cut the second screen configuration down to a bare minimum since I'm not
using it anyway.)
I was wondering how I could tell KDE to just stay on my monitor and not use
the second X screen for anything. I've tried looking into all kinds of docs,
man pages, mailing list archives and so on, but it seems this isn't mentioned
anywhere.
I'd be very thankful for any help. I want my good old KDE back :-|
Johannes
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