Status of multi-monitor support

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Guillaume Pothier wrote:
> I am very interested in having multi-monitor support working in KDE. I

it's probably good to define what is meant by "multi-monitor".

right now we support multi-screen systems running under the same X server, 
e.g. xinerama.

we do not support multi-head (screens under different X servers), however.

> On the other hand, the shell does not react well to configuration
> changes. It is necessary to restart plasma when a monitor is
> added/removed.

there is code to handle this, actually. but we've never had the signals to 
actually test it and so it's sort of rotted out. see PlasmaApp::adjustSize in 
workspace/plasma/shells/desktop/plasmaapp.cpp .. 

you should find this:

        //TODO: we have a screen that has changed, but no view.
        //      perhaps we should make one.

;)

> Aike told me Seli is working on that.

Seli is working on plasma? or just working on making kwin not interfere with 
screen change announcements?

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