On 4 November 2010 09:24, YoYo Siska <y...@gl.ksp.sk> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:43:25AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 04.11.2010 08:38, schrieb Mick: >> > >> > PS. Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the >> > application windows seem to be screen aware. On the left monitor they >> > will maximise only to cover fully the left hand screen not the right >> > hand. The same happens when maximising an application window on the >> > right. I don't remember seeing this in Linux - applications I think >> > maximised across both screens. >> >> Again, I don't know what desktop environment you are using but that >> works flawlessly on KDE. >> > > 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. -- Regards, Mick
