[luau] KDE vs. GNOME

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

No sane person dares to get into the KDE vs. GNOME debate, but I never 
thought that the first thing I did in 2004 was to switch from  KDE to 
GNOME.

After having become accustomed to dual monitors (I have a pair of very 
crispy NEC MultiSync 1760 LCD monitors on my desktop), it is very 
difficult to get back to just one monitor (shame on me, I know, I know).

In RH9, the version of GNOME did not have twinhead option (and anyone 
who is able to upgrade GNOME please raise your hand); thus, the only 
choice was to go with KDE.  And it has worked very well.  However, with 
Fedora Core 1, the twinhead option of KDE is quite "screwy" (not to 
mention that Fedora was not able to configure twin head option 
right--but this can be easily corrected by hand).  Naturally, I went 
through the routes of upgrading the kernel and nVidia driver, but 
nothing helped.  And extensive Google searches revealed nothing.

Then I remembered GNOME was adding the twinhead feature in 2.4.  So I 
switched to GNOME as my desktop.  Suddenly, everything worked.  And I 
must praise Red Hat for making transition between KDE and GNOME so 
effortless.

However, if anyone knows how to make twinhead works in KDE/Fedora, 
please be kind enough to share your knowledge.  BTW, when running the 
twin head option in GNOME, x always crashes when screensaver is 
triggered.  Not a show-stopping bug, but something to be aware of 
nontheless.  wayne