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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    FW: KDE
From:       Kurt Granroth <granroth () suse ! com>
Date:       2000-11-20 23:51:54
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If you are running an UltraSparc with dual monitors, then this message
might help you out.

----- Forwarded message from "Richard C. Burnett" <burnett@tality.com> -----
> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 16:29:24 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Richard C. Burnett" <burnett@tality.com>
> Subject: KDE
> 
> I didn't know who to send this to, but first I wanted to say; WOW!  I have
> been using computers since I was a little kid, and I have always been
> trapped by Microsofts Windows, which I will admit I liked.  I have been
> using KDE1 for about a year and liked it alot, except for the few bugs it
> had that I was too lazy to solve or report.  I am in the process of
> compiling all the parts of KDE2 over ( screwed up the JPEG support ),
> however I must say, that on my Solaris Ultra Sparc 10, this is the most
> beautiful thing I have ever seen.  So much so that at home I am going to
> get my redhat linux running with kde2 and TRY to get WINE to run the
> programs that I need.  I wanted to make three important
> comments/suggestions/help that you can pass on if you want.  I hope that
> if free time comes up soon, I too would love helping with the
> coding. Finally a project that used OO in a good way:
> 
> 1.  I run two monitors ( two framebuffers ) and it was a real pain to get
> kde to work on both.  The first thing I did was setup my xserver to run an
> x display on both card, I did this by making a .xserverrc file in my home
> directory, which contains:
> 
> Xsun :0 -dev /dev/fb0 defdepth 24 -dev /dev/fb1 left -nobanner
> 
> xinit uses this file to start the server.  This information was VERY hard
> to come by, and this should help UltraSparc and other users alike.  The
> line says use the xserver program Xsun for display :0, the first device is
> fb0 and give it a default color depth of 24-bit and the second device is
> fb1 which by default will be 8 bit, put the second displat to the left of
> the first and don't show the stupid openwindows banner.
> 
> Then what I do is run 'startkde &' then set the display for :0.1 ( the
> second monitor ) set HOME to be some other directory in my home directory
> and then do startkde ( this is all done in the .xinitrc file )  Which
> starts up KDE on both monitors.  There are all kinds of warnings and stuff
> running messages being spewed out.  
> 
> KDE is not really setup ( or I just cannot find the docs on it ) for multi
> monitor single user support )  If so let me know.  The color depth stuff
> other sparc users will want to know about.  
> 
> 2) I think the only thing that even holds back many technical people from
> using linux+kde2 is windows apps.  Stuff like DirectX and such.  If wine
> or other developers can get that working at its best then I would switch
> in a second.
> 
> Feel free to allow people to email me questions on the dual monitor
> support and such.  I am very impressed with KDE2 and hope your
> organization wins ALOT of awards.  There is NOTHING comparable in the
> world as far as I am concerned!
> 
> Rick

----- End forwarded message -----

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Kurt Granroth            | http://www.granroth.org
KDE Developer/Evangelist | SuSE Labs Open Source Developer
granroth@kde.org         | granroth@suse.com
            KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop

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