I’ve just installed SuSE 11.1, and have so far been able to get my dual
monitor setup to play nice. Both monitors are operational, and function
fine from an application point of view (3200x1200 res), but KDE refuses
to display my wallpaper over both monitors. In fact, I cannot set the
wallpaper for my second monitor at all (it’s stuck to the default green
SuSE wallpaper or a fixed color).
As a side effect: widgets also refuse to be moved from one monitor to
the next. Applications can be moved fine, even put half on one monitor
and half on the other, but the widgets and the wallpaper refuse to
cooperate. This worked fine for me with SuSE 10.3. Any thoughts?
What i’m about to say may not help! just warning you
Okay, I’m still new to this, but what I did in kde3 suse 11 where I had
the same problem was to configure the desktop. Select the background, or
a slideshow in my case, then under advanced options - I set it to ‘scale
& crop’ - this fixed any issues with displaying on screens.
Now no matter the size or orientation it will scale and crop them to
fit both screens as one large background.
Hope that helps,
-Matt
– Desktop: Linux 2.6.25.18-0.2 x86_64 | OS 11.0 | KDE 3.5 | Nvidia 7950
GT | Intel Core2 Duo 6600 2.4ghz | 4GB RAM Laptop: IBM X31 | OS Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy | Pentium M | 1GB RAM
I have the same problem. I don’t think proprietary videocard drivers
properly configure multiple screens in xorg.conf so as far as OS can
see, you only have 1 monitor. It looks like ati has an its own way of
handling multi-monitor setup.
Right click on the second monitor desktop. You can then choose to add
widgets or configure desktop. You have to open those dialogs from the
monitor you want to change/add/etc widgets and/or wallpaper. KDE4 is not
like 3.5.x in that the display properties can be changed from one dialog
for either monitor.
And yes, thew widgets do not move from one monitor to the other. I
don’t know if this a bug or by design.
cybertaz;1942848 Wrote:
> It is not video drivers.
> Right click on the second monitor desktop. You can then choose to add
> widgets or configure desktop.
>
I can’t. The second monitor just shows a gray background and right
clicking on it doesn’t bring up any menus. I am able to use it just fine
otherwise. Move windows around, etc.
Try killing the plasma process and starting it again… fixed it for me
once.
PS: In 4.2 you can move widgets from on monitor to the other just fine,
not in one drag for panels though as they’ll stick to the side
connecting the screens. Dragging it again does move it over to the other
monitor.
Axeia;1942897 Wrote:
> Try killing the plasma process and starting it again… fixed it for me
> once.
>
> PS: In 4.2 you can move widgets from on monitor to the other just fine,
> not in one drag for panels though as they’ll stick to the side
> connecting the screens. Dragging it again does move it over to the other
> monitor.
The widgets always get stuck at the screen edge for me. I just ran an
update on kde4.2 yesterday haven’t tried with the update though. I’ll
try later today when i get home.
