Re: [kde-linux] Anyone using IceWM? Xinerama?
- From: Bob McGowan <bob_mcgowan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:24:18 -0700
David J Iannucci wrote:
I've got a new setup at work, in which I'm stretching my workspaces
across two monitors. I had thought I needed to activate "xinerama", but
I had some trouble figuring out how to do that, and I ended up just
doing it with xrandr. Well, my preferred environment is KDE with icewm
as window manager, but I found that icewm had trouble with this dual
monitor configuration. For example, when I tried to drag a window from
one monitor to another, it didn't want to cross the boundary. So I've
been using kwin, but I'd like to get back to icewm...
Is anyone using icewm with this sort of configuration? Or just have any
general advice about how to make icewm integrate with KDE as well as
possible? Or how to get "xinerama" under KDE? (if I just try to turn it
"on" in xorg.conf, X server craps out with an error).
I'm not even sure what the benefit would be of having true xinerama,
but I feel there probably is some benefit compared to the simple
xrandr method, and maybe it would make icewm Just Work...
Thanks,
Dave
___________________________________________________
Dave,
This may depend, in part, on the video card being used. For example, my system has an NVidia graphics card. To get the best support for its features, I'm using the NVidia proprietary ;( driver, which has a setup program called 'nvidia-settings' that configures dual monitor setup.
The program has an option to save to the X config file. What I have in that file, now, is:
...
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
...
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "DELL 2007FP"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
...
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro FX 4000"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
EndSection
...
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: 1600x1200 +0+0, DFP-1: 1600x1200 +1600+0;
DFP-0: 1024x768 +0+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +1024+0; DFP-0: 800x600 +0+0, D
FP-1: nvidia-auto-select +800+0; DFP-0: 640x480 +0+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select
+640+0"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
...
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
...
These are, I hope, all the relevant sections for my display setup. Whether they are any help or not, depends.
As for the window manager, I'm not using icewm, so I can't speak to whether any of this would work with it or not.
--
Bob McGowan
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