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	KDE4 Multiple Monitor support by Ross Linder :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message In KDE3 it is possible to use multiple monitors WITHOUT Xinerama, in this mode both desktops look like complete sessions, each has its own pannel, its own workspace manager, and importantly can run at different resolutions. It would appear that this is impossible to achieve with KDE4. I think this is a serious lack of feature. _______________________________________________ kde-quality mailing list kde-quality@... https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-quality
	Re: KDE4 Multiple Monitor support by Braden Mcdorman :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Twinview works almost flawlessly for my different resolution monitors, but X itself seems to be the root of most of my problems If I have them. Supposedly the Nvidia drivers make some funky changes to the X.org config file. But I can have different panels on each monitor, etc. Thanks, Braden McDorman On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Ross Linder <info@...> wrote: In KDE3 it is possible to use multiple monitors WITHOUT Xinerama, in this mode both desktops look like complete sessions, each has its own pannel, its own workspace manager, and importantly can run at different resolutions. It would appear that this is impossible to achieve with KDE4. I think this is a serious lack of feature. _______________________________________________ kde-quality mailing list kde-quality@... https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-quality _______________________________________________ kde-quality mailing list kde-quality@... https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-quality
	Re: KDE4 Multiple Monitor support by Shaun Reich :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message 2009/8/21 Braden Mcdorman <bmcdorman@...>: > Twinview works almost flawlessly for my different resolution monitors, but X > itself seems to be > the root of most of my problems If I have them. Supposedly the Nvidia > drivers make some funky > changes to the X.org config file. But I can have different panels on each > monitor, etc. > > Thanks, > Braden McDorman > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Ross Linder <info@...> wrote: >> >> In KDE3 it is possible to use multiple monitors WITHOUT Xinerama, in this >> mode both desktops look like complete sessions, each has its own pannel, >> its own workspace manager, and importantly can run at different >> resolutions. >> >> It would appear that this is impossible to achieve with KDE4. I think this >> is a serious lack of feature. >> _______________________________________________ >> kde-quality mailing list >> kde-quality@... >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-quality > > > _______________________________________________ > kde-quality mailing list > kde-quality@... > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-quality > > Yeah, I just recently (yesterday) set up a dual head LCD desktop (with nvidia), so I enabled Xinerama because it sounded good and.. well, it was an extra option, so I figured I had might as well... Needless to say, I was disappointed when I couldn't access my virtual terminal well I could...but I could only see a black screen, but I could log in and stuff(I knew because when I logged in, I could hear my hard drive being used).. I also found out that compositing wasn't working.. So in conclusion..I think the moral of the story is to not have Xinerama enabled, because it seems to do the following: (a) seems to do nothing for extra features or usefulness (b) disables compositing permanently while Xinerama is enabled (c) disables your ability to access virtual terminals So yeah, I really don't see a reason for using it... I was under the impression that it allowed dragging of windows between each separate X session... but TwinView does the same exact thing... in fact, I can't find any missing feature switching from Xinerama to TwinView, only extra features (well..more like Twinview having a lack of inability to use features). I recommend, as Braden said, to use TwinView, there is nothing to lose, only to gain from what you lose with using Xinerama. The mouse moves between them and everything, flawlessly... Now I just have to figure out how to (if I can) get the virtual terminals (via GRUB2) to display at a nice and high resolution... with 1600x900 for each monitor being the native (and current), 1280x1024 does not cut it for a virtual terminal, as it's huge... It works absolutely beautifully for me, the only thing that I wish it had, was Plasma to have the ability to copy plasmoids, but I will just have to do it manually (I like the idea of 2 activities separate, but don't like the idea that I have to do twice the work of setting up an activity) -- Innumerus Gratiae, Shaun Reich _______________________________________________ kde-quality mailing list kde-quality@... https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-quality
	Re: KDE4 Multiple Monitor support by Kenneth Lakin-2 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Shaun Reich wrote: > (b) disables compositing permanently while Xinerama is enabled IIRC, Xinerama is deprecated for this and many other reasons. Xrandr is its replacement. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-x/2007-November/000059.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJKj1IGAAoJEIsblWe5kJ+jIVoH+weQOgYbtpQxy4wdeVV2GoLO Sojpc+HvDJE/syN3bsIW/HnmivPehCGKjqL7Sy0XkSRwfyMiCtu4t+bav/vlQrq0 boLwOdSysQ09LnnsAfrKD3zV6CZ8ggSzSjyIVYXC9VZRcD1/nL8FbGX16WmbMeAA kI4QbNsup6XKPXmr1OC2kaKBtDkFQOIlt6ez4GzKbu+lB2Ruzmfpzpy6wVxKpnnp wJDIOV74PXwvCouGNZBzr1zn2c5x6Ww13iP084Nk2qFLt9U2+ScUEiy6sCE/pGUX yd2REt1caImzrYexWwI9ExYWCyhOft3smPAR+qej0knelHIS8rE+wnIz+BRryrc= =o5p+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-quality mailing list kde-quality@... https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-quality
	Re: KDE4 Multiple Monitor support by Eric Springer-2 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Ross Linder <info@...> wrote: > It would appear that this is impossible to achieve with KDE4. I think this > is a serious lack of feature. Hi Ross, I believe I have the set-up you are after [1]. I'm using the opensource ( ati ) drivers, and then used xrandr [2] to adjust it to a side-by-side layout. Hopefully it'll work for you too. [1] http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/2081/dualmonitor.png [2] xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x1024 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output DVI-0 --mode 1366x768 --pos 1280x0 --rotate normal _______________________________________________ kde-quality mailing list kde-quality@... https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-quality