KDE.. 3.2 and Xinerama

squint · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Vancouver BC

I just installed Gentoo on my machine at work. I have DUAL head working and I was running Debian.

I have xinerama in my use flags and X ( seems ) to be working correctly..
I have Options "Xinerama" "true" in my XF86Config..

After emerging kde 3.2 I have none of the xinerama options and xininerama is definatly not enabled.

Does anyone have any experience with kde 3.2, gentoo and xininerama???

_Nomad_ · Guru Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 571

Have you checked to see if the "multiple monitors" selection in kcontrol is active? You can find it in Peripherals --> Display --> Multiple monitors...

squint · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Vancouver BC

Nope I do not have that option..

I just did "equery use kdebase" and the rest of my kde packages..
None of them use the xinerama use flag?..

Maybe its the way I am starting Xinerama.? Is there a better solution?

Here is a snippet of my XF86Config..

#Start Snippet
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "Xinerama" "true"
EndSection
#End Snippet

Thanks for any help in advance.

_Nomad_ · Guru Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 571

none of the kde packages utilises the xinerama use flag... so there's nothing wrong there... However... xinerama SHOULD be used when specifying that particular option, I don't use xinerama myself so I'm afraid I don't really know where to go from here... Does it work in other wm's? that'll at least rule out if it's a kde specific problem...

squint · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Vancouver BC

I just emerged sawfish .. Its working perfectly..

Anyone have any ideas why KDE isnt?
Is there something I have to do in kdm to flick it on or something?

shm · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:38 pm Post subject:

see if there is a bug on bugs.gentoo.org.. I've heard of this issue before
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what up

squint · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Vancouver BC

No.. I just searched the DB for xinerama and read all the results.. nothing remotly like my issue..

Any other ideas ?

firephoto · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 11:45 pm Post subject:

I posted my config over in this other thread.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=139634
I just tried a bunch of various "emerge * -vp" trying to find something that used the xinerama use flag but I couldn't find anything but I know I've seen it as a use code while emerging things.

What video card are you using? I have a matrox config that worked when I was using a g450 card, but I'm using nvidia now and it works a lot better. I don't know about using two seperate cards, never done except the g450 card was pretty much treated as seperate cards as far as X was concerned.

What do you see in KDE? Anything on the second display or just a clone or is it in standby?

My dual head setup works good except for trying to get games into a full half screen window. Takes a quick keyboard shortcut because the "no border" option isn't part of the "save window settings" apparently.

_Nomad_ · Guru Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 571

not much help, but these are the packages that actually use the xinerama use flag