Xorg config file

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Ok i have a weird thing going on. I have KDE and Gnome installed with version 11.2 openSUSE. I’m really wondering how this is happening when it shold be reading the same file.
KDE desktop http://thumbnails31.imagebam.com/8835/67471288347838.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/67471288347838)

Gnome desktop http://thumbnails21.imagebam.com/8721/fdec3587205714.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/fdec3587205714)

KDE sees 2 desktops for the dual screens.

Gnome sees 1 desktop for the dual screens.

Both should be reading this.

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor0”
VendorName “Unknown”
ModelName “Samsung SyncMaster”
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option “DPMS”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor1”
VendorName “Unknown”
ModelName “Samsung SyncMaster”
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Device0”
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “NVIDIA Corporation”
BoardName “GeForce GTX 260”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Device1”
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “NVIDIA Corporation”
BoardName “GeForce GTX 260”
BusID “PCI:2:0:0”
Screen 1
EndSection

Section “Screen”

Removed Option “TwinView” “0”

Removed Option “metamodes” “DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0”

Identifier     "Screen0"
Device         "Device0"
Monitor        "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth    24
Option         "TwinView" "1"
Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-1"
Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: 1680x1050 +1680+0, DFP-1: 1680x1050 +0+0"
SubSection     "Display"
    Depth       24
EndSubSection

EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen1”
Device “Device1”
Monitor “Monitor1”
DefaultDepth 24
Option “TwinView” “0”
Option “metamodes” “DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0”
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Can anyone tell me why this is happening?

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Other than you are convincing to move to Gnome (if I could afford a second screen) , no, I don’t know. :stuck_out_tongue:

Its rather interesting the difference, thou. Clearly its desktop related. Hopefully one of our knowledgeable Xorg.conf users can chime in.

Ensure you keep a backup copy of your 11.2 xorg.conf file if you move to 11.3, because 11.3 has no sax2 tool for generating such a file.

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I have a back up of Xorg.conf and i did not use sax2 to make the conf, i used the Nvidia settings tool.

Here is a screen shot of my Gnome desktop July Screenshot Thread It sees the desktop in Gnome as 3360x1050 one big desktop.

What really puzzles me is i know they are reading the same xorg.conf file.

I had a weird thing happen when trying UE 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 the mouse would be on one screen then right click and the menu would show up on the other screen, plus i had to alt+tab to get my mouse to the other screen. So I said #$%^ this and back to the best Linux distro.

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This doesn’t look like a problem with xorg.conf twinview config as such, more a KDE4 desktop limitation.

This thread discusses the same topic:

Dual Monitors with Kde4

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I can make the KDE to look just like the Gnome desktop but left it this way so i could take screen shots and may be find out why. In some ways i think it’s cool i can use 2 different backgrounds so i can see more of Jennifer Love Hewitt…:slight_smile: