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On 2009-01-12T10:57:02+00:00 Daniel Thaler wrote:

Version:           KDE 4.1.96 (4.2 rc1) (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

I'm running Arch Linux with the current KDE 4.1.96 packages.

In the "Configure Display" window I have 3 entries:
First is "VGA" which is greyed out because nothing is connected to VGA
Second is LVDS, the notebook's built-in display
Third is TMDS-1, an external screen connected via DVI.

Only the VGA entry has buttons to set the position, which are of course 
disabled.
For the 2 connected displays I can only set the position by running xrandr on 
the commandline.

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On 2009-01-20T19:37:43+00:00 Remi-assailly wrote:

I have a similar problem with an intel card, when my VGA screen is connected to 
my laptop i can't configure dual screen properly.
I can set orientation of each screen but I am unable to move the boxes to place 
my screens. I can't drag and drop it like windows or nvidia tools do.
The boxes are superimposed.

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On 2009-01-24T00:47:12+00:00 Orion-cora wrote:

Me to.  Fedora 10 with kde-testing 4.1.96 and ATI Radeon.  I can set
position fine with xrandr.

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On 2009-01-26T23:15:26+00:00 Orion-cora wrote:

Still present with 4.2.0 from kde-testing repo.

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On 2009-05-10T00:13:00+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:

*** Bug 191880 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2009-05-10T00:14:01+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:

*** Bug 185968 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2009-05-10T02:25:40+00:00 Joe Mulloy wrote:

Found this in kdebase-workspace-4.2.2/kcontrol/randr/outputconfig.cpp
starting at line 258.

        // FIXME: RandRScreen::applyProposed() has a bit of code for positioning
        // outputs, but it's commented out and might not work as is. Until 
someone
        // gets this to work, it's probably better not to show these controls.
        positionLabel->setVisible(true);
        positionCombo->setVisible(true);
        positionOutputCombo->setVisible(true);

Looks like this was intentionally turned off because the code behind it
isn't fully implemented.

Looks like it still hasn't been fixed in the latest code in SVN. It
would be really nice to have this for 4.3.

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/kcontrol/randr/outputconfig.cpp?view=markup

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On 2009-06-30T09:23:23+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:

*** Bug 195649 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2009-06-30T09:24:55+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:

*** Bug 197327 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2009-06-30T17:36:47+00:00 Joe Mulloy wrote:

Seems we have a lot of people looking for this to be fixed. What's the
status of this bug, has any work been done on it yet?

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On 2009-07-01T12:21:46+00:00 Khashayar Naderehvandi wrote:

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

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On 2009-07-30T16:24:24+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:

*** Bug 201866 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2009-07-30T16:39:11+00:00 Chris Puttick wrote:

Awesome. So my reported bug is a duplicate although affects a different
version (KDE4.3RC3) and has some specific additional observations and
observed symptoms beyond the placement issue.

Ok. Seems odd to my understanding of bug identification and tracking.
Never mind.

So we need to add to this bug that said module also *resets* dual
display that has been manually configured (suggesting it is pre-confed
as "Unify Outputs") and refuses to set higher monitor resolutions where
disparate monitors are used (possibly the same reason, although if you
use krandrtray and turn off "Unify Outputs" you still can't do it).

Any progress on this bug? Anything I can do to help?

Those struggling to get dualhead working might want to go over here:

http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=62111&start=0#p84062 (linked
from my original bug, has step by step instructions on getting it to
work with ATI card on radeon drivers).

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On 2009-08-24T14:52:21+00:00 Toni Helenius wrote:

I can confirm this bug. Affects Kubuntu Karmic with KDE 4.3. I'm using
Nouveau with my Geforce 9800GTX+. Nouveau is capable of XRANDR 1.2.

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On 2009-09-15T11:54:32+00:00 N-beernink wrote:

Another confirm, seems I'll be stuck with one monitor at work for the
time being. Xrandr can be used as a temporary solution but when I log
out and in again I'd have to reset all the panels and taskbars for some
reason. So I'll just wait for this bug to be fixed.

2x Prolite E431S
Nvidia 9500GT (tried both open source drivers and proprietary ones.)
KDE 4.3 on Fedora 11

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On 2009-10-08T16:26:20+00:00 7oby wrote:

> Looks like it still hasn't been fixed in the latest code in SVN. It would be
> really nice to have this for 4.3.

Maybe that's because:
> I'm going to hide the positioning controls for the time being - if someone
> wants to take a stab at making this work: it's all yours.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172315#c4

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On 2009-10-11T13:42:14+00:00 7oby wrote:

I see a fix is developed over at OpenSuse (comment #4 and #14):
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468931

Would somebody pull this one in? It annoys Kubuntu Users as well:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase-workspace/+bug/403610

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On 2009-10-30T07:58:47+00:00 pseudonomous wrote:

I would like to point out that:

------- Comment #12 From putt1ck 2009-07-30 16:39:11 (-)

affects me in exactly the same manner; running KDE 4.3.2 on top of Arch
Linux.  I've intel GMA 950 graphics, Xorg-server 1.6.3.901.  Despite the
fact that I've now written bash scripts to trigger the monitor
configurations I commonly use, and now know how to use xrandr like the
back of my hand, I think it would be a good idea to fix this.

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On 2009-11-25T10:19:08+00:00 Dschaefer79-6 wrote:

*** Bug 208518 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2009-12-02T02:40:57+00:00 Dkbatson wrote:

Same problem in Fedora 12 KDE and Mandriva 2010 KDE.  I had to add a section to 
xorg.conf and use the xrandr commands to resolve this.  Details in the 
following post:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1299661&postcount=4

KDE should get on the stick and fix this problem.  AND IT IS A PROBLEM.
This is not a problem at all in Fedora 12 GNOME.

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On 2009-12-02T12:31:06+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:

*** Bug 181779 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2010-01-04T22:17:09+00:00 Deus-ex-machin wrote:

Max votes from me --would love to see this fixed.

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On 2010-01-20T12:23:39+00:00 Geert Janssens wrote:

I would like to see this fixed as well. It has bitten me on Fedora 12
and Mandriva 2010.

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On 2010-01-20T12:34:40+00:00 Remi-assailly wrote:

Hi all, just a little message to tell you it seems to be fixed in 4.4 :)
The tool is not perfect but it works for me. I do not need to use xrandr 
anymore :)

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On 2010-01-20T12:42:54+00:00 BRULE Herman wrote:

Not here in svn.

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On 2010-02-03T12:58:53+00:00 Spikethehobbitmage wrote:

I had this problem as well.  A work around is to add
Option "RightOf" "<your primary monitor identifier>"
to the Monitor section for your secondary display in xorg.conf

remember to add Option "monitor-<xrandr name>" "monitor identifier" for
each monitor to your "Device" section

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On 2010-04-24T21:30:30+00:00 Octavian Petre wrote:

The option is in KDE 4.4.2. I will retract my votes

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On 2010-04-26T15:37:45+00:00 dE wrote:

Then this bug should be CLOSED.

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On 2010-05-29T05:46:26+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:

*** Bug 239876 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2010-08-15T03:04:04+00:00 Andrey S wrote:

Yes, GUI is there,

but it does not work with my Intel 965GM and KDE 4.5.0.

At first it caused blinking monitor horror, which did not stop 
until I issued good old xrandr command tied to keyboard shotrcut.

After that it just stopped doing anything no matter which options I
changed.

Does it work for anybody?

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On 2010-08-15T07:26:24+00:00 Chris Puttick wrote:

Works for me. Kubuntu 10.04 (KDE 4.4.2), Intel Mobile GM965. Regression
in 4.5?

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On 2010-08-15T08:50:56+00:00 BRULE Herman wrote:

Not work here with open source drivers and ati radeon hd 4570 mobile.

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On 2010-08-16T16:38:37+00:00 Andrey S wrote:

(In reply to comment #30)
> Works for me. Kubuntu 10.04 (KDE 4.4.2), Intel Mobile GM965. Regression in 
> 4.5?

By "Works" you mean you can set resolution for one monitor?

I tried setting external monitor and turning of internal, 
but it failed and just cloned internal resolution on external screen.

When I make a little bit more complex setup: 
another monitor on top of the internal _not_ in clone mode, 
it fails too. I tried various combinations of absolute/below/above.
But it just blinks many times and then clones one of the screen -> useless.

But xrandr from command line works perfectly: it blinks 1 time
and then sets resolutions and positions correctly.
This is command to place external monitor(VGA) above internal (LVDS):
xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1280x800 --rotate normal --pos 0x1200 --output VGA 
--mode 1920x1200 --rotate normal --pos 0x0

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On 2010-08-16T16:47:05+00:00 Chris Puttick wrote:

Created attachment 50614
Screenshot of KDE screen settings showing 2 screens being managed

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On 2010-08-16T16:49:02+00:00 Chris Puttick wrote:

I mean working working :)

Also working (now at my desk) on ATI Radeon X1650 Pro using open source radeon
driver. See attached screen shot.

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On 2010-08-17T09:42:04+00:00 dE wrote:

Apparently this's fixed with KDE 4.4.4

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On 2010-08-17T12:40:32+00:00 Andrey S wrote:

Yes! Thank you for inspiring screenshot. 
Finally I see that it is really working working for me too!

Though, there are some glitches.

When you set your screen layout and then press "Apply",
a message appears to accept new layout. 
If you don't press "Accept" in about 15 seconds 
it reverts to previous configuration.

I think this is what was happening to me, but as my system
is not very fast and I have compositing enabled, 
screen was redrawn quite slowly and I just did not see 
this message properly. Plus sometimes Kwin doesn't redraw
windows correctly after changing resolution if compositing
is enabled (dodgy Intel drivers), so I saw that a message appears,
but didn't see what is written on it.

If composition is disabled changing screen resolution works faster
and dialog windows is displayed properly.

So I think that it would be quite sensible to make the delay
before Accept/Revert window disappears at least 30 seconds.

But there is workaround: you can just press Alt+A, if you sure,
that resolution is correct, but windows just redraw too slowly
or you just don't want to 

Another thing is that you cannot set primary screen,
so on Intel all panels and widgets will migrate to external
screen by default and you have to do it manually:
xrandr LVDS --primary
Here is bug about that: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241719

Yet another glitch is with 90 and 270 orientations 
(useful for monitor with pivoting stand in portrait mode):
relative position is calculated incorrectly.
But if you set absolute positions for both monitors everything is fine.
But I think another bug report should be opened fo that one.

Conclusion:
no regression in KDE 4.5.0 for Intel 965GM. FIXED.
Though, cannot confirm this for ATI/NVidia at the moment - 
I don't have the hardware.

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On 2010-08-18T07:26:45+00:00 dE wrote:

I have an ATI, no problems here.

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On 2010-08-31T14:57:08+00:00 L-lunak-5 wrote:

*** Bug 181679 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2010-10-08T16:13:47+00:00 Ttsoares wrote:

ArchLinux. KDE 4.5.1. LVDS1 and VGA1. When one activates the VGA1 not to
be a clone but an extension of LVDS1 at left, the desktop content from
LVDS1 migrates to VGA1 and a new and empty desktop appears at LVDS1 !!

This was not the behavior some weeks ago. At that time the new desktop
at VGA1 was the new (empty) one and the LVDS1 remains at the LCD display
of the notebook...

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On 2010-10-08T18:54:54+00:00 Ttsoares wrote:

Complementing my comment:

The command

xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1280x800 --output VGA1 --auto --right-of
LVDS1

result the exact same not desired behavior i described at the last
comment here...

One could conclude that the problem is not with KDE but with xrandr
itself...

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On 2010-10-08T19:24:03+00:00 pseudonomous wrote:

(In reply to comment #40)
> Complementing my comment:
> 
> The command
> 
> xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1280x800 --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1
> 
> result the exact same not desired behavior i described at the last comment
> here...

try running:

xrandr --output LVDS1 --primary --mode 1280x800 --output VGA1 --auto
--right-of LVDS1

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On 2010-10-08T19:41:06+00:00 Ttsoares wrote:

Yes !!!

A quick read at the man page of xrandr was not enough to me to realize
this option "primary" !!

Now it would be nice that this solution reach the persons who take care
of the module "Display and Monitor".

Many thanks fred.

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On 2010-11-21T14:11:49+00:00 Ricardo Graça wrote:

In the latest version (4.5.3) there are still some problems with
krandrtray in regards to positioning screens. It's still not possible to
drag around the screens in the graphical representation as a way to
place them. It's also not possible to define which one is the primary
one. Also, sometimes I connect an external monitor to my laptop after
kde startup and right-clicking on the krandrtray icon doesn't show the
new monitor. Left clicking and going to the configuration dialog does
work though.

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On 2010-11-21T15:14:07+00:00 slavo wrote:

(In reply to comment #43)
> In the latest version (4.5.3) there are still some problems with krandrtray in
> regards to positioning screens. It's still not possible to drag around the
> screens in the graphical representation as a way to place them. It's also not
> possible to define which one is the primary one. Also, sometimes I connect an
> external monitor to my laptop after kde startup and right-clicking on the
> krandrtray icon doesn't show the new monitor. Left clicking and going to the
> configuration dialog does work though.

i confirm your problems too

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