On Thursday 09 September 2010 17:13:17 todd rme wrote:

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:

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Hi,

I have installed 11.3 and KDE 4.5. I managed to install the Nvidia driver (through Yast) and use nvidia-settings to setup my two monitors with twinview.

Now from there I am quite puzzled. The settings say the desktop is 2560x1024, however I have to set the background of the two monitors separately.

I used a folderview "desktop" on the left monitor, and I don't seem to be able to "extend" it on the right monitor - I tried to setup another forlderview on the right monitor, but it insists on being a widget on the desktop and on showing a "title". I tried to use the same "activity" on the right monitor but then any object that appears on teh left monitor is mirored on the tight one...

Is there any way to achieve a setting similar to the one I use currently: a twinview desktop spanning both monitors, with links to some partitions and drives on the right side (à la Macintosh)?

Thierry

KDE does not support having one desktop spanning two monitors, for one simple reason: lots of people have monitors with different resolutions. Such a setup would either require having part of the desktop inaccessible on one screen, or have part of one of the screens being wasted. The Nvidia settings may allow this, though.

-Todd

Sorry I dont understand this statement because my kde 4.4.4 on Opensuse 11.0 supports twinview and multiple monitor perfectly and that includes folder view on either of the screens or both in the twin view. I also use 2 screens (with twinview) on my laptop at work (opensuse 11.3) and these also work perfectly (with separate resolutions) Am I just being lucky - no I dont think so! I have one desktop consisting of 2 activities; is this what you mean by cant span? You can also use the folder view plasma -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org

On Thursday 09 September 2010 20:27:37 Thierry de Coulon wrote:

On Thursday 09 September 2010, Andrew Colvin wrote:

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Sorry I dont understand this statement because my kde 4.4.4 on Opensuse 11.0 supports twinview and multiple monitor perfectly and that includes folder view on either of the screens or both in the twin view.

I also use 2 screens (with twinview) on my laptop at work (opensuse 11.3) and these also work perfectly (with separate resolutions)

Am I just being lucky - no I dont think so!

I have one desktop consisting of 2 activities; is this what you mean by cant span?

You can also use the folder view plasma

I tried to set 2 activities, but I can only see one at a time - I'm very new at KDE 4 so maybe I have to get a better understanding of "activities" and how they work.

I get a folderview that "covers" the left screen (I mean it's not a widget on the desktop, it IS the desktop), but on the right screen all i can manage is a folderview showing some folder, it works as a widget and I can't get rid of the title.

Now as I said I tried 4.5 from Factory so maybe something is different from 4.4.4, or is not working the way it should, or more probably I screwed something :)

Thierry

Unusually I havent ungraded to 4.5 as I can no longer update my 11.0 install and I need to upgrade the version but I am being far too lazy atm. May be someone with 4.5 can try it separately When I zoom out on the activities I see 2 one on each screen. I agree it would be nice to be able to set arbitrary sizes for activities and place them on your screen as you wish but it seems they are tied to a physical screen. Do you see 2 activities (click the cashew and then zoom out)? I have found activities to be very temperamental and once I got it how I like it I didnt change it. I always try and leave the default activities along and create a different set because of the instability issues that did exist - may be another set of activities may help -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org

On Thursday, September 09, 2010 21:27:37 Thierry de Coulon wrote:

I get a folderview that "covers" the left screen (I mean it's not a widget on the desktop, it IS the desktop), but on the right screen all i can manage is a folderview showing some folder, it works as a widget and I can't get rid of the title.

RMB on the right desktop, Desktop Settings, set Activity Type to Folder View, Apply. I'd recommend upgrading to 4.5, since a lot of the Activity Management has been re-jigged (you're not the first being confused with how it *was*). -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org