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From: Leonardo Guilherme <leonardo.guilherme@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 02:28:00
Message-Id: BANLkTimr8jTbgVbkFNX+SkX0mHSGdNJV7w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them by Florian Philipp
1 2011/5/17 Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>
2
3 > Am 17.05.2011 22:22, schrieb Mick:
4 > > It seems that some setting changed from the 4.5 to 4.6 because now the
5 > > boundaries between the two monitors are no longer respected. Let me try
6 > to
7 > > explain:
8 > >
9 > > In KDE4.5 if I were to maximise a window of an application while it was
10 > > positioned say in the left monitor, it would maximise to occupy all of
11 > the
12 > > real estate in the left monitor only. If the application was in the
13 > right
14 > > monitor, it would maximise to occupy only the right monitor.
15 > >
16 > > Also in KDE4.5 moving an application window near the ends of a monitor
17 > would
18 > > snap to the edge even if this was the vertical edge between the two
19 > monitors.
20 > >
21 > > In KDE4.6 application windows maximise across both screens and there's no
22 > > snapping into the edge at the middle.
23 > >
24 > > Finally, I can no longer set different wallpapers for the two monitors.
25 > >
26 > > Is there some setting I could use to fix this?
27 >
28 > I had the same problem. You have to enable the xinerama use flag, even
29 > if you do not intend to configure xinerama.
30 >
31 > euse -E xinerama && emerge -av --reinstall changed-use world
32 >
33 > will do the job.
34 >
35 > Hope this helps,
36 > Florian Philipp
37 >
38 >
39 I had the very same problem and I can confirm that using the xinerama flag
40 fixes it.
41
42 I'm using fglrx drivers, also I have defined two "Screens" in my
43 xorg.conf.d, I don't know if it has something to do with it (tried multiple
44 solutions and when things got working i just left it untouched).
45
46 Leonardo