[luau] KDE vs. GNOME

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

Thanx for the input.  Xinerama is an x display option which allows you 
to span your screen cross multiple monitors.  For example, without 
turning xinerama on, the twinhead configuration (implemented in 
/etc/X11/XFConfig) will show two separate screens, each being physically 
confined within a monitor and  no drag and drop between them.  Adding 
the xinerama option in the gdm.conf file will allow the log-in screen to 
span over two monitors; it does not help the twinhead (i.e., dual 
monitor) problem in KDE/FC.

When PCLinuxOS (a modified MDK 9.2 with, among other things, the nVidia 
driver already configured) becomes finalized, I am going to do a PCLO/FC 
dual boot and see whether this problem is present in other distros.  wayne

hattenator at imapmail.org wrote:

>I'm not sure what you mean by twinhead, but xinerama is what I'm figuring
>you mean.  I never have seen a fancy graphical interface or anything like
>that.  What I did was to add +xinerama to the command line in the gdm
>conf file.  I'm away from that computer, but you edit something like
>/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf or /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf and there is a line
>that says something like
>Command="X"
>and you change it to 
>Command="X +xinerama"
>
>That works fine in kde and gnome.  
>
>-Eric Hattemer 
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