[luau] KDE vs. GNOME

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

Just found out that this problem has been reported as bug #109351, 
relating to a bug in the libXrender in FC1.  Installing XFree-lib from 
RH9 solved the problem, but (as everyone would have expected), this also 
introduced a myriad of other problems.  I feel quite relieved as I am 
sure this problem will be solved sooner or later (it might have already 
been solved but I have not kept up with any of the non-essential 
updates).  At the present time, I will be using twinhead (on KDE) 
without the xinerama option turned on.

Thanks for your very helpful comments.


hattenator at imapmail.org wrote:

>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
>