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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright <roy@××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> Well I just went back to using two monitors in twinview mode after a few |
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> months of single monitor suffering. But now when KDM start I get half a |
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> screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right |
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> half of the right monitor. OK, should just need to set the background |
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> image. So head over to Computer, System Settings, Advanced, Login |
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> Manager but got a problem, everything there is disabled. Docs imply |
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> there should be an Admin button but it's not there (Have: Help, |
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> Defaults, Reset(disabled), & Apply(disabled)). |
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> Thinking, oh well, off to /usr/kde/4.2/share/config/kdm, edit kdmrc and |
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> set GreeterScreen to -1 (the only multi display setting I saw) to see |
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> what happens. Ran genkdmconf. Restarted xdm. No change. |
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> Any ideas? |
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KDM does the same for me on a wide-screen monitor. In fact it could be |
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a security risk because after logging out of KDE, random pieces of |
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screen from the last session sometimes show up on the garbage parts on |
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the sides, including potentially sensitive information. It does not |
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appear to support any kind of screen size detection. What you need to |
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do is find (or make) a theme that is the same size/aspect ratio as |
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your display setup and then it'll be okay. It's trying to use a 4:3 |
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theme on a 8:3 or 16:9 or whatever and apparently the KDM people |
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haven't gotten around to dealing with that yet. |
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