On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Mark Knecht posted on Sun, 03 Apr 2011 09:58:41 -0700 as excerpted: > >> I've got a KDE problem. I needed to move a monitor on one dual-screen >> KDE box to a different machine. I physically removed what was the second >> monitor, modified the xorg.conf file to remove all references to the >> second screen and rebooted. I now get a normal login screen with entries >> boxes in the middle of what is now the only monitor attached to the >> system. However once I log in I get only wallpaper and don't see any >> panel/taskbar at the bottom of the screen. >> As KDE doesn't even give the option to open a terminal using a right >> click I don't know how to proceed. > > KDE 1 was a long time ago. I didn't know it had dual monitor support? > But the only time it doesn't make sense to include the kde version is > before there's other versions to talk about, so you /must/ be talking > about something in the kde1 era, right? > > =;^P >
I guess I'm not smart enough to understand the comment above. KDE 1? You know I'm a Gentoo user and old stuff isn't in portage. > Seriously, version number can make a difference. kde4's multi-monitor > support has improved dramatically over time, and particularly plasma had > some bugs in that regard as late as 4.5. I've not personally seen any in > 4.6, but then I've not done a whole lot that might provoke them in 4.6 > either, so I can't be sure the ones I experienced in 4.5 have been fixed. > By the 4.2.4 at which I originally switched, kde4 /was/ useful in multi- > monitor mode, but there were /significant/ bugs with it, some of which > have only been fixed recently. > I'm using whatever the stable version from portage is. 4.4.5 I think. I read through your response, used the Alt-F2 trick to get systemsettings up and running, didn't see any problems with KDE-4.4.5's thoughts about what was attached for monitors. It saw one 1280x1024 monitor attached to VGA1 which is what it should see. Still no panel/taskbar/App Launcher across the bottom. I found I could add widgets to the desktop but if I tried to add an App Launcher it just disappeared. The easy way out was to delete the .kde4 directory in my home directory and just start like a new user. I'm now back up and configured the way I want. I don't know what I lost by doing that - probably some saved passwords, etc., but nothing too hard to set up again. Thanks, Mark ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
