KrandTray (in Tools-SystemTools menu) what does show to you?darkc wrote:Hi I am Darkc, I already post a thread regarding kde 481, in mandriva forum but in French. Here is my post in English
Ok, I have successfully installed kde 4.8.1 64bits on top of my mandriva 2010.2. It works great (almost) but I have a really big annoying problem with twinview configuration.
Before upgrading to kde 481, I was running mandriva 2010.2 + kde 455 Mib backport ( thanks again). I have two monitors connected to a gforce 8800 running nvidia proprietary drivers. Under this configuration, twinview was working as expected, with one different desktop per monitor, and of course the possibility to move a window from one monitor to the other.
Now, under kde 481 by MIB, twinview behaves differently. I just have ONE desktop spread on the two monitors. It means that when I maximize a window, or I toggle an application in full screen mode, the window will cover the two screens instead of one screen, which I don't like, and I don't want.
So I was suspecting a driver issue (which should not be the case bc it was working great with kde 455). Then I updated to the latest nvidia driver, and I also tweaked as much as possible all the possibilities for /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, without success... same pb.
Then I updated xorg to xorg 1.11.3 MIB backport (thanks AGAIN !), and no luck, same problem....
Then I installed xcfe to check what happens with another windows manager. And with this WM I have a normal behaviour !! I have one desktop per monitor, and maximizing a window only cover one desktop(monitor) as expected !
I tested kde 481 with another linux distribution and it behaves correctly regarding twinview mode.
So the question is : did you compile kde 481 with some specifics options which involve such (bad) behaviour of the twinview mode ? Or do I miss something else ?
THANKS A LOT in advance for your help and all of your work.
I always used it to configure multiple displays...
but I'm on a Radeon HD5750, so thing could be different.
You can also tweak the video card output from a konsole using "xrandr" (it also has much more options than the kde GUI one)...
GvM