In <[🔎] 75491vF15ef99U1@mid.dfncis.de>, M. Henne wrote:
>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> I use TwinView, including its fake Xinerama, and I'm not seeing the bug.
>> That said, I think I skipped from kwin in Etch to KDE 4.2 (initially from
>> experimental). I'm now on KDE 4.2 from unstable and maximizing to a
>> single monitor works fine, as done dragging windows between monitors.
>This sounds interesting.
>
>Can you explain the relevant sections in xorg.conf? What is 'fake Xinerama'
>and how can I activate it?
From what I understand, NVidia and ATI have other ways for treating multiple
monitors as a single X screen. NVidia calls theirs TwinView, I can't remember
what ATI calls theirs. In any case, neither of these require Xinerama to even
be supported in the X server, but can, in the correct (and at this point,
default, I think) configuration can pretend to be Xinerama. When either is
doing that, I refer to it as "fake Xinerama" -- that might just be a me thing.
Anyway, here's the sections from my xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "TwinView"
Screen 0 "Default Screen (TwinView)"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen (TwinView)"
Device "nVidia 7800 GTX (TwinView)"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia 7800 GTX (TwinView)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo"
Option "RandRRotation" "on"
Option "ConstantDPI" "off"
Option "TwinView" "on"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "DFP-0 RightOf DFP-1"
Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: 1920x1200, DFP-1:
1280x1024; DFP-0: 640x480"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection
I also had Xinerama working for a while, but I switched over to TwinView in
the hopes that my OpenGL would behave better. It didn't work, but I never
switched back. My configuration for that is: (I wonder if it still works...)
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Xinerama"
Screen 0 "Default Screen (0)"
Screen 1 "Default Screen (1)" LeftOf "Default Screen (0)"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen (0)"
Device "nVidia 7800 GTX (0)"
Monitor "Dell 2407WFP"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen (1)"
Device "nVidia 7800 GTX (1)"
Monitor "Dell 1905FP"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia 7800 GTX (0)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo"
Option "RandRRotation" "on"
Option "ConstantDPI" "off"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia 7800 GTX (1)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo"
Option "RandRRotation" "on"
Option "ConstantDPI" "off"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
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