My understanding is that KDE is not currently fully xinerama aware. One of
the features for 3.1 is to enhance this. You can see who is working on this
as well as get status at
http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.1-features.html

There was also a brief discussion about xinerama and KDE on the dot not too
long ago. Bring up http://dot.kde.org/1025655479/ and do a search for
xinerame. You'll find the thread.

This probably doesn't help you much, but at least you'll know where KDE
stands and where it's going...

Best regards,

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Dean S. Messing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 1:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] kde and xinerama question



I'm at my wits end regarding kde and xinerama.

I've got the two heads running just fine.
I've got the virtual desktop running under a single
KDE invocation (KDE-2.2.2) so I can slide a window
across screens.

But there is some very annoying behaviour that I can't seem
to rid myself of.

In particular, if I horizontally maximise, say, an emacs window it
maximises across the _entire_ virtual desktop, which, in most cases,
is the wrong thing to do.

When the kde screensaver comes up, it is centered in the virtual
desktop not in one of the physical desktops---again the wrong
thing to do.

I've wasted a lot of time poking around in google and all I've
discovered that KDE 2.2.2 is supposed to be "xinerama-aware" but, from
the above behaviour, it clearly isn't.

What do I need to do to get kde to understand that I'm running
xinerama?  I'm running Mandrake 8.2 with stock KDE.

Dean


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