On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Dean S. Messing wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> :: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> <snip>
> :: > 1: Do I need to do anything special to enable the xinerama extension
> :: > mentioned in the Nvidia Readme? I ask because KDE seems
> :: > to like to put windows up right across the boundary between the
> :: > two monitors and the Readme indicates that the xinerama extension
> :: > should prevent this. What am I missing.
> ::
> :: The Xinerama extension does not prevent this. The Xinerama
> :: extension gives the window manager a mechanism to prevent this.
> :: Window managers must specifically support this. Some do, some don't.
> :: I don't know about KDE. Some window managers try to do this and
> :: are broken and have behavior worse than if they did nothing at all
> :: so we have an option to disable advertising of the Xinerama extension.
>
> This is a pain.
> Is there an easy way to find out what KDE 2.2.2 is capable of?
> Anyone in the forum running KDE 2.2.2 with TwinView on a single card?
> Will an upgrade to KDE 3 fix things?
> Will going to "straight xinerama" be better?
From the client's point of view there is no difference between
actual Xinerama running or NVIDIA's TwinView advertising Xinerama.
> Maybe I can try running _two_ xservers (instead of two modes)
> and hot_key between them?
> Another pain.
>
Yes, two X-servers with different sized root windows is a solution
to the fixed root window size problem, provided you don't mind having
to VT switch between the two.
MArk.
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