[luau] KDE vs. GNOME

[hattenator at imapmail.org]

I take it you have xinerama turned on, though?  I have two separate
graphics cards, but all I did was turn xinerama on in gdm and it works
fine in both gnome and kde.  It is surprising that gnome nor kde would
have anything to do with it.  All drivers are handled by X, and the
+xinerama gets sent directly to X.  So gnome and kde should have nothing
to do with it.  Bugs in kde and gnome are likely to have less powerful
effects, such as spanning a single window across both screens that
doesn't make sense, or not allowing you to drag certain windows across
certain directions.  But almost all of those bugs were solved several
versions ago.  Explain what you've done, what goes wrong, and possibly
send your /var/log/X*0.log and /etc/X11/XF86Config.  

-Eric Hattemer

On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 10:00:19 -1000, "Hawaii Linux Institute"
<wp at HawaiiLinux.us> said:
> 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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