Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (96 mails)

[Michael <translucent_one@xxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Schlander wrote:

> Søndag 28 december 2008 02:41:17 skrev Michael:
> > Using suse 11.0 (kde 3.5.9-65.2) I'm experiencing window focus and
> > missing window frame problems on the second display when using kde. The
> > mouse can cut and paste into applications on either display. The problems
> > do not happen when using suse 10.2 (kde 3.5.5-102.11). They also do not
> > happen when using twm under suse 11.0. I've experienced these problems
> > both with and without the ati driver. The displays are running with
> > Xinerama off and Clone off.
>
> I had this regression between KDE 3.5.7 (10.3) and 3.5.9 (11.0) too. In a
> setup with tv and monitor as two seperate screens. Using Nvidia blob.
>
> No idea what caused it - and never found a fix. Iirc I was told that non-
> xinerama setups had never really been supported - only in a hackish way.
> The same setup worked well with both gnome and xfce btw... but of course
> using either of those is not an option.
>
> So now I just switch xorg.conf and restart X - I can live with that since
> I don't use the tv-out that much. I plan on trying it again with 4.2. As I
> understand it, there should be some dual head improvements there.

Playing around, I stumbled upon a solution to the lack of window frames and
window focus on the second head in suse 11.0: 

Using your favorite editor, type in kwin. Copy the kwin text and it's
trailing linefeed. Paste this into an xterm on the second head. kwin will
complain of an existing kwin but will create window frames and permit
window focus on the second display head before terminating itself.

This workaround only needs to be executed once, i.e. logging out and logging
back into kde restores window frames and focus for both displays.

hth,
Michael


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