From kde-core-devel Thu Sep 28 13:58:51 2000 From: Alex Hayward Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:58:51 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Does 1 kwm handle 2 monitors/graphic-cards? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=97015040804976 On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Falk Brettschneider wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to set such a startkde-configuration for dual-head mode > of XFree4?: > - Monitor 1 has got virtual KDE2 desktop 1 and 2. > - Monitor 2 has got virtual KDE2 desktop 3 and 4. The best I've managed so far is to start KDE on :0.0 and then manually start a second copy of kwin on :0.1. This isn't ideal---there's no panel or backdrop on the second monitor, for instance. [ The two monitors effectively have two independant sets of virtual desktops.] It doesn't handle switching between monitors too well either; in particular you can only transfer the focus by clicking on a window. That means that if you get yourself stuck with the second monitor on a desktop with no windows and the focus on your first monitor then you have no way to switch desktops on the second monitor without opening a new window on it explicity (ie, with DISPLAY=:0.1 from the first). This is with plain multi-head, not Xinerama.