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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: User question on multi-head support
From:       Andrew Mason <slackmase2 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-07-10 13:16:42
Message-ID: 99cd336d0907100604p6630dd5bjdb23ed80aa90a93e () mail ! gmail ! com
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I know Aaron has called out (on his blog) for multihead testers with
for plasma desktop so there people working on it.

On 7/10/09, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@googlemail.com> wrote:
> In a thread about multi-display support, it has been said
> <quote>
> If you're having multi-head issues with kde4, you may wish to revert to
> 3.5, as it's WAY more stable in that regard, at least for some of us.
> From what I've read, kde3's working multi-head multi-desktop was actually
> something of an accident, however, and apparently there's no kde devs
> actually working on it for 4.x at this time, at all.  But single desktop
> RandR mode should eventually get its bugs quashed, and with X headed ever
> more toward RandR, hopefully all drivers will eventually get it, so true
> xinerama and the old non-randr merged-framebuffer will be a thing of the
> past.  Thus, I'd not be surprised if it the legacy modes never get full
> support from kde4.
> </quote>
>
> Is this a correct reading of the status?  If not, can you please give me
> some
> relevant information so that I can contradict it.
>
> Anne
>
 
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