[Bug 227887] New: Multiple separate screen handling broken

[Kelly Price]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227887

           Summary: Multiple separate screen handling broken
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: bugs at stalag99.net


Version:            (using KDE 4.4.0)
Compiler:          gcc (Gentoo 4.3.4 p1.0, pie-10.1.5) 4.3.4 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

KDE's handling of multiple separate screens has broken since KDE 3.5.  It
cannot handle situations in which:

* Screens are different sizes, and therefore need to be handled separately.
* Screens are on two different physical cards.
* Xinerama is turned off.
* NVidia's TwinView is turned off.

In other words, you have :0.0 and :0.1, side by side, and the user set it up
that way because it's the only way it works.

Of course, there's limitations.  You can't move windows from one screen to
another, but users expect that because they're different screens on the same
X11 server, and Xinerama is turned off.

Xinerama will not help, so you cannot depend on it.

What happens:  KDE 4.x (including 4.4) displays only on :0.0 and refuses to
take up :0.1
What should of happened:  KDE takes up both displays.
What happened in 3.5:  KDE takes up both displays.

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