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On Sunday 18 Nov 2012 09:55:01 Dan Johansson wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> |
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> Yesterday I did an "emerge --update --deep --verbose --reinstall |
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> changed-use --with-bdeps y world --pretend" as usual (about two weeks |
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> since doing the last one). During this upgrade a few X-related libs and |
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> programs got updated (list below). After this upgrade I have a strange |
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> problem with my dual-monitor setup - the monitors are "half-swapped". Let |
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> me explain what I mean with "half-swapped": |
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> I have two monitors setup on my system, acting as one big desktop (KDE by |
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> the way). On each monitor I have some icons and widgets (different icons |
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> and widgets on each monitor). Before when I moved my mouse to the right |
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> edge of the left monitor and it "continued" over to the left edge of the |
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> right monitor (as you normally wold would have it in a dual-monitor |
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> setup). After the upgrade it is like this: |
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> On each monitor the "correct" icons and widgets are there (the icons and |
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> widgets of my left monitor is still on the left monitor, and the same for |
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> the right one). BUT: Now I have to move my mouse to the left edge of the |
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> left monitor to have it to "jump" to the right edge of the right monitor. |
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> This is a little bit "confusing" to say the least. What I also have |
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> noticed is the the KDE-Pager shows the open windows on the "wrong side" of |
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> the "desktop-icon". |
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> |
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> Here is the list with the updated packages: |
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> x11-base:xorg-drivers-1.13 |
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> x11-base:xorg-server-1.13.0-r1 |
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> x11-drivers:nvidia-drivers-304.60 |
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> x11-drivers:xf86-input-evdev-2.7.3 |
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> x11-drivers:xf86-video-nv-2.1.20 |
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> x11-libs:cairo-1.10.2-r3 |
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> x11-libs:libXaw-1.0.11-r1 |
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> x11-libs:libXfont-1.4.5-r1 |
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> x11-libs:libXrandr-1.4.0 |
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> x11-libs:libdrm-2.4.40 |
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> x11-libs:libvdpau-0.5 |
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> x11-libs:libxcb-1.9 |
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> x11-libs:pixman-0.28.0 |
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> x11-libs:xcb-util-0.3.9 |
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> x11-misc:xkeyboard-config-2.7 |
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> x11-proto:dri2proto-2.8 |
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> x11-proto:randrproto-1.4.0 |
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> x11-proto:xcb-proto-1.8 |
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> |
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> Anny suggestions? |
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I think that if you run 'xrandr -q' in a terminal you'll get an idea of what |
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your set up is at this moment. Then you should be able to modify this using |
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xrandr and the KDE GUI should hopefully follow. |
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-- |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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