In this particular example I am using NoMachine’s NX, although the behaviour also occurs when running VNC for instance.
I’d like to connect from my laptop (1 physical screen), to my desktop at work (2 physical screen) via NX. It all works but the following problem occurs:
When I connect with my laptop to my desktop I (almost) always am connected to the 2nd physical screen, whereas all windows appear on this first screen. I can interact with my desktop, use the task manager etc, see which windows are running, but any application I start, starts on the first screen (which I cannot see) and for the life of me I cannot move them from screen1 to screen2 without dragging them (which obviously is impossible since I only see screen2).
The obvious workaround is: before you connect disable the second screen via the display manager but for me this is a non-pratical work around because it requires a lot of actions before heading home.
Any ideas on how I can connect from a single-head desktop to a dual-head desktop without crippeling my desktop experience?
PS: I realize this is actually a bug but I’m trying to understand the problem first before I want to file a bug report.
Well it seems I’m slowly learning more about the problem.
Apparantly it seems I am connected to 1 physical screen, which just happens to look like my secondary desktop when I am logged in locally. This might have something to do with the primary monitor setting, it might now.
But more importantly I found out that I can force windows to show themselves if from the task manager I select “Keep above others” which leads me to believe that for some reason in KDE 4.6 (and in earlier version as well, I’ve experienced this problem for years) the Desktop is shown on top of everything else?!? Obviously I cannot control the plasma-desktop and select “Keep below others”, so what can I do? Is there an easy fix for this or time for a bug report?
Update: I found out that using the “Netbook” workspace behaviour does correctly display the current window on top, so it’s jsut the default plasma desktop which persists on top of all other windows.
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>Well it seems I’m slowly learning more about the problem.
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>Apparantly it seems I am connected to 1 physical screen, which just
>happens to look like my secondary desktop when I am logged in locally.
>This might have something to do with the primary monitor setting, it
>might now.
>
>But more importantly I found out that I can force windows to show
>themselves if from the task manager I select “Keep above others” which
>leads me to believe that for some reason in KDE 4.6 (and in earlier
>version as well, I’ve experienced this problem for years) the Desktop is
>shown on top of everything else?!? Obviously I cannot control the
>plasma-desktop and select “Keep below others”, so what can I do? Is
>there an easy fix for this or time for a bug report?
>
>Update: I found out that using the “Netbook” workspace behaviour does
>correctly display the current window on top, so it’s jsut the default
>plasma desktop which persists on top of all other windows.
For some reason i keep thinking that this may be related to a “show
desktop” widget. But i can’t seem to find it and i am no longer sure what
desktop or even which OS it was on.
Did you ever find a solution to this problem? I’m trying to do the same thing and have the same issue but have yet to come up with a solution. The only thing I did find was that I can add widgets to the display. I can stick a task manager on the screen and use it to show apps fullscreen and they show. This makes me wonder if it’s actually showing the secondary display. Also, my secondary display has a launcher panel which is not shown on the remote nx display.