On Saturday 13 December 2008, Istvan Gabor wrote:
I have the same problem with an NVIDIA FX-6200 card driven by the latest proprietary nvidia driver. I do not use xgl either. As I see in your xorg conf file your second monitor is configured as an independent second monitor, ie. tvinview is not activated. (Xinerama is turned on, however it has effect only if twinview is ativated as well, I think. Please correct me if I am wrong.)
Yes, it's configured as an indepent screen. I want it that way, because then I can run a game full screen on the primary monitor, while my email, web browser and Kopete can live on the second monitor. It works fine, except for the missing window decorations. I don't want to use Xinerama, since that would stretch the current display over both monitors. I think you're correct about Twinview needing to be activated before Xinerama will work, but I'm not sure either.
Are you using kde? I have kde 3.5.9 and it looks the second monitor has a complete independent kde desktop. The background is different, taskbar is diferent and windows have no decorations, they can not be moved.
Yes, KDE 3.5.10, release 31.2. Indeed, the second monitor seems to have a completely different KDE desktop, with different background and all.
I think we should find out where the kde settings of the second monitor are stored and maybe we could tweak them there. The other strangeness is that on another system with an older kde (opensuse package 3.5.7 or 3.5.8) this problem does not not show up, that is window decoration are not missing.
This is actually the first time I have tried this and I don't have an older KDE available anymore. It seems to be a problem specific to KDE in combination with the NVidia proprietary driver. With ATI cards, this problem doesn't arise. Perhaps we should file a bug report with NVidia?
Please, if you find an explanation/solutinon, let me know.
I will. You please do the same. Joop