Really Freaking strange desktop behavior

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Ok, So I installed ATI Livna Drivers and my display looks great and I am running dual monitors on a laptop. The normal monitor and an external 27".

The strange part is the keyboard only works on one monitor.
The mouse works on both.

On the external monitor I can open application but only with the mouse and the application windows do not have a border. The top area that says openSuse an enables you do move the window around.
It isnt there. It tried alt +f3, but as I said the keyboard only works on display1 (laptop). Therefor all key commands revert back to the laptop monitor.

What the ???
This shouldnt be possible

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Any ideas, Still having the same problem. How is it possible for the keyboard only to work on one monitor?

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It sounds like you have it setup to have two seperate X sessions. There are two ways to setup dual monitors. one is to have a single X session span the two monitors. The other is to have two seperate X sessions.

I don’t know about the ATI drivers. But you should be able change it in sax2. (in YaST or console window by typing sax2)

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that is exactly what is is doing. It like having two operating systems running. How do I stop it. sax2 isnt active because of the ati driver

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open suse automatically boots into the dual x sessions. If I try to run suse without dual monitors it wont start.

I dont want it on I just want to stop the dual x sessions.

ATI Cataylist doesnt have any setting they are all grayed out and sax2 cant find any displays, so I have no idea what is causing this

HELP???

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that is definatly the problem

ech $display results in :0.0 and 0.1
how to I kill the 0.1 if I dont have a working keyboard in that x server?

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I use two monitors configured as separate X screens. Gnome handles them very well.

If you’re not getting any window borders and can’t use the keyboard, this suggests you aren’t running a window manager on the problem display.

So install fvwm via YaST and then try, from your primary display, the one called :0.0, the command:

fvwm -d :0.1 -s

The -d tells fvwm, a window manager, to run on display 0:1, the -s says run on only one display.

You’ll see something from 15 years ago appear (I love fvwm) but you should see window borders and be able to type into a terminal window.

If that works, we can see what can be done to get you working with something like Gnome or KDE.