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From: "John H. Moe" <johnmoe@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:08:32
Message-Id: 4B384122.60901@optusnet.com.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work by Xi Shen
1 Xi Shen wrote:
2 > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >> have they changed the definition of the word, or i were wrong at the
5 >> first place?
6 >>
7 >>
8 >> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
9 >>
10 >>> On Saturday 26 December 2009 19:29:10 Xi Shen wrote:
11 >>>
12 >>>> hi,
13 >>>>
14 >>>> my system is gentoo amd64, kde-4.3, my graphic card is nvidia's. i use
15 >>>> nvidia-settings to set up my two displayer to work in the tweenview
16 >>>> mode. it supposed to have two separate desktop, instead it have a
17 >>>> large desktop expand two displayer.
18 >>>>
19 >>>> on gnome and windows, tweenview always sets up two separate desktop.
20 >>>> how can i set this on kde?
21 >>>>
22 >>>>
23 >>> Per the nvidia-driver docs (/usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-190.53/README.bz2),
24 >>> TwinView is designed to give you one large desktop and there's not much you
25 >>> can do about that in KDE.
26 >>>
27 >>> See Chap 15 of that same doc for a description of how to configure two
28 >>> separate screens.
29 >>>
30 >>> --
31 >>> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
32 >>>
33 >>>
34 >>>
35 >>
36 >> --
37 >> Best Regards,
38 >> David Shen
39 >>
40 >> http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
41 >> http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
42 >>
43 >>
44 >
45 >
46 > why i cannot find the file you mentioned? it looks like i do not have
47 > it installed. how can i install it?
48 >
49 >
50 >
51 It should get installed with nvidia-drivers:
52
53 jmoe@jhb5970 ~ $ equery belongs
54 /usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-185.18.36/README.bz2
55 [ Searching for file(s)
56 /usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-185.18.36/README.bz2 in *... ]
57 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-185.18.36
58 (/usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-185.18.36/README.bz2)
59
60 You may have to substitute your nvidia-drivers version number for the
61 185.18.36 in my path, or the 190.53 in Alan's path?
62
63 John H. Moe