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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:10:32
Message-Id: 200912280855.47697.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work by Xi Shen
1 On Monday 28 December 2009 05:54:31 Xi Shen wrote:
2 > have they changed the definition of the word, or i were wrong at the
3 > first place?
4
5 I've never heard of tweenview, but Nvidia has had a thing called TwinView for
6 ages.
7
8 And nvidia also likes to do their own thing in their own way. They even rip
9 out the X DRI and GLX stuff and replace it with their own, so they could
10 easily make TwinView work differently as well...
11
12 But I haven't seen that they did change things. For me, it's working as it
13 always did.
14
15 >
16 > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
17 wrote:
18 > > On Saturday 26 December 2009 19:29:10 Xi Shen wrote:
19 > >> hi,
20 > >>
21 > >> my system is gentoo amd64, kde-4.3, my graphic card is nvidia's. i use
22 > >> nvidia-settings to set up my two displayer to work in the tweenview
23 > >> mode. it supposed to have two separate desktop, instead it have a
24 > >> large desktop expand two displayer.
25 > >>
26 > >> on gnome and windows, tweenview always sets up two separate desktop.
27 > >> how can i set this on kde?
28 > >
29 > > Per the nvidia-driver docs
30 > > (/usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-190.53/README.bz2), TwinView is designed
31 > > to give you one large desktop and there's not much you can do about that
32 > > in KDE.
33 > >
34 > > See Chap 15 of that same doc for a description of how to configure two
35 > > separate screens.
36 > >
37 > > --
38 > > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
39 >
40
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42 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com