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Apparently, though unproven, at 22:22 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Mick did opine |
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thusly: |
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> It seems that some setting changed from the 4.5 to 4.6 because now the |
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> boundaries between the two monitors are no longer respected. Let me try to |
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> explain: |
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> In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window of an application while it was |
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> positioned say in the left monitor, it would maximise to occupy all of the |
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> real estate in the left monitor only. If the application was in the right |
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> monitor, it would maximise to occupy only the right monitor. |
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> Also in KDE4.5 moving an application window near the ends of a monitor |
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> would snap to the edge even if this was the vertical edge between the two |
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> monitors. |
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> In KDE4.6 application windows maximise across both screens and there's no |
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> snapping into the edge at the middle. |
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> Finally, I can no longer set different wallpapers for the two monitors. |
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> Is there some setting I could use to fix this? |
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This might help narrow the source of the problem down. |
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This doesn't affect my nVidia card [GeForce 8600M GT] on any version between |
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4.3 and latest 4.6 in the tree, so I suspect your drivers. |
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Snap to the edge between two monitors works here. |
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An unmaximized window always maximizes to fill the monitor it is on. |
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An unmaximized window that is partly on one monitor and partly on the other |
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does a neat trick when maximized - it fills the monitor that held the bigger |
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fraction of the window. |
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All this neat goodness works on both nVidia driver and nouveau, straight out |
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the box, no fiddling required |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |