On Thursday 04 November 2010 15:36:37 you wrote: > On 4 November 2010 09:24, YoYo Siska <y...@gl.ksp.sk> wrote:
> > Just to make it a bit more clear: > > xrandr is used to setup the resolution and position of the monitors > > (you can make them clone each other, overlap, be alongside / above / > > below the other...) > > > > How the windows / panels behave depends on your windows manager/desktop > > environment (or on the panels themselves). X server provides them with > > enough information about the layout of the monitors, and they have to > > use it. So it depends on which DE or window manager you use... > > > > In kde3, there was a configuration option for kwin, whether windows > > should be maximized across all screens or on single screen... > > I can't find it in kde4 settings right now, but I have only single head > > card here and I guess it would be under "Multiple Monitors" option in > > settings, which just says "You don't appear to have this configuration" > > for me ;) > > > > Plasma in kde4 manages things per monitor, so panels should be only > > on one monitor (and you can't get them across multiple monitors, you > > have to have a separate panel on each)... > > > > Recent versions of fluxbox allow you to have the toolbar on a certain > > monitor (head) or across all heads... Don't know how it is when > > maximizing windows (some time ago I used to patch it to make it an > > option, didn't play with it lately...) > > > > I can't say anything for gnome or other DEs/WMs... > > Thank you all for your responses! > > The box in question is running KDE. > > The first thing I tried was to go into Systemsettings and play with > Display settings in there. Nothing I tried would take. Only xranrd > on the CLI brought some results. Even so, rebooting means that I have > to rerun the stanza to make the new large monitor on the DVI port > auto-adjust. It seems that the card sees the VGA as the primary > monitor and the DVI as the secondary monitor, when I really want them > the other way around. > > Any way, I'll have another go at the Display settings in the KDE > Systemsettings and see if I am missing something in there. OK, I had some more time to look at this. As I said above, systemsettings changes won't take. Having set the DVI at 1920x1080(auto) and to be on the right of VGA-0, I click on Apply and the DVI on the right of VGA reverts to 'Clone of' and the size stays the same as the VGA (1280x1024). Then I ran xrandr again as Florian suggested and this is what it shows: $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto <--this gives 1920x1080 $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --right-of-VGA-0 --verbose xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1920x1920 (desired size 3200x1080) As a result it does not place the DVI on the right of the VGA driven monitor. Can you please explain this error to me - why does it complain? -- Regards, Mick
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