Hi, in fact, KDE4 can smoothly do dual-head + Xinerama. I had it up & running in the not-so-distant past with OpenSUSE 11.0 + KDE4.x (can't remember now what "x" was) so that's why I was so annoyed when I saw that it won't work as smooth (or even better!) on 11.3 ... Anyway, I'll try some other combinations when I go back home this afternoon and I'll keep you posted. Yesterday night I was able to have all the missing KDE4 effects and use the nVidia GPU using a one-monitor-only configuration... when I turned Xinerama on and restarted X the magic vanished... :-/ so I guess I'm getting closer. Posts like this one http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=69166 might shed some light... Regards, Martin ----- Original Message ----
From: Rodney Baker
To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Fri, July 30, 2010 4:03:08 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] First impressions on OpenSUSE 11.3: 11.0 was better... On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:01:26 Bob Ewart wrote:
[...] Basically they are saying that KDE 4 doesn't really support a dual screen setup and that there is no one to work on it or maintain it.
They're wrong - I've been using it with dual screens since 4.0.4 and it works perfectly (provided you don't want to stretch one panel across both screens).
The thing is that each screen has a separate desktop activity with its own plasma setup (I haven't tried it with a plain i.e. non-plasma setup) but if you don't mind this (and I don't) then I can't find any other drawbacks.
In fact, I kind of like it like that because I can have separate backgrounds on each screen (it just so happens that they're photos of my kids).
I use an nvidia 9400GT with the latest binary drivers and have xinerama setup in my xorg.conf file. I have had the same setup since 3.5.8 (previously using an FX5500).
I do think that performance may have been slightly better with the 195.36 drivers than the current 265.xx drivers but I haven't yet switched back to confirm that.
Anyway, the point is that dual-head on nvidia on KDE4 works great. Anyone who says it can't be done should go back and re-read the nvidia docs.
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