[gentoo-user] Dual-monitor setup changed after update - Monitors "half" swapped

[gentoo-user] Dual-monitor setup changed after update - Monitors "half" swapped

[Dan Johansson]

Hi,

Yesterday I did an "emerge --update --deep --verbose --reinstall changed-use --with-bdeps y world --pretend" as usual (about two weeks since doing the last one).
During this upgrade a few X-related libs and programs got updated (list below). After this upgrade I have a strange problem with my dual-monitor setup - the monitors are "half-swapped".
Let me explain what I mean with "half-swapped":
I have two monitors setup on my system, acting as one big desktop (KDE by the way).
On each monitor I have some icons and widgets (different icons and widgets on each monitor).
Before when I moved my mouse to the right edge of the left monitor and it "continued" over to the left edge of the right monitor (as you normally wold would have it in a dual-monitor setup).
After the upgrade it is like this:
On each monitor the "correct" icons and widgets are there (the icons and widgets of my left monitor is still on the left monitor, and the same for the right one).
BUT: Now I have to move my mouse to the left edge of the left monitor to have it to "jump" to the right edge of the right monitor. This is a little bit "confusing" to say the least.
What I also have noticed is the the KDE-Pager shows the open windows on the "wrong side" of the "desktop-icon".

Here is the list with the updated packages:
x11-base:xorg-drivers-1.13
x11-base:xorg-server-1.13.0-r1
x11-drivers:nvidia-drivers-304.60
x11-drivers:xf86-input-evdev-2.7.3
x11-drivers:xf86-video-nv-2.1.20
x11-libs:cairo-1.10.2-r3
x11-libs:libXaw-1.0.11-r1
x11-libs:libXfont-1.4.5-r1
x11-libs:libXrandr-1.4.0
x11-libs:libdrm-2.4.40
x11-libs:libvdpau-0.5
x11-libs:libxcb-1.9
x11-libs:pixman-0.28.0
x11-libs:xcb-util-0.3.9
x11-misc:xkeyboard-config-2.7
x11-proto:dri2proto-2.8
x11-proto:randrproto-1.4.0
x11-proto:xcb-proto-1.8

Anny suggestions?
-- 
Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-monitor setup changed after update - Monitors "half" swapped

[Mick]

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On Sunday 18 Nov 2012 09:55:01 Dan Johansson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yesterday I did an "emerge --update --deep --verbose --reinstall
> changed-use --with-bdeps y world --pretend" as usual (about two weeks
> since doing the last one). During this upgrade a few X-related libs and
> programs got updated (list below). After this upgrade I have a strange
> problem with my dual-monitor setup - the monitors are "half-swapped". Let
> me explain what I mean with "half-swapped":
> I have two monitors setup on my system, acting as one big desktop (KDE by
> the way). On each monitor I have some icons and widgets (different icons
> and widgets on each monitor). Before when I moved my mouse to the right
> edge of the left monitor and it "continued" over to the left edge of the
> right monitor (as you normally wold would have it in a dual-monitor
> setup). After the upgrade it is like this:
> On each monitor the "correct" icons and widgets are there (the icons and
> widgets of my left monitor is still on the left monitor, and the same for
> the right one). BUT: Now I have to move my mouse to the left edge of the
> left monitor to have it to "jump" to the right edge of the right monitor.
> This is a little bit "confusing" to say the least. What I also have
> noticed is the the KDE-Pager shows the open windows on the "wrong side" of
> the "desktop-icon".
> 
> Here is the list with the updated packages:
> x11-base:xorg-drivers-1.13
> x11-base:xorg-server-1.13.0-r1
> x11-drivers:nvidia-drivers-304.60
> x11-drivers:xf86-input-evdev-2.7.3
> x11-drivers:xf86-video-nv-2.1.20
> x11-libs:cairo-1.10.2-r3
> x11-libs:libXaw-1.0.11-r1
> x11-libs:libXfont-1.4.5-r1
> x11-libs:libXrandr-1.4.0
> x11-libs:libdrm-2.4.40
> x11-libs:libvdpau-0.5
> x11-libs:libxcb-1.9
> x11-libs:pixman-0.28.0
> x11-libs:xcb-util-0.3.9
> x11-misc:xkeyboard-config-2.7
> x11-proto:dri2proto-2.8
> x11-proto:randrproto-1.4.0
> x11-proto:xcb-proto-1.8
> 
> Anny suggestions?

I think that if you run 'xrandr -q' in a terminal you'll get an idea of what 
your set up is at this moment.  Then you should be able to modify this using 
xrandr and the KDE GUI should hopefully follow.
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-monitor setup changed after update - Monitors "half" swapped

[Dan Johansson]

Hi again,

Sorry for the waste of bandwidth.
I had forgotten that there is also a configuration setting in KDE which monitor that is right/left of the other and not only in xorg.conf.
Changing it in xorg.con "swapped" the icons and widgets as well, changing it in KDE did not affect the placement of the icons/widgets.

Regards,
-- 
Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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On Sunday 18 November 2012 10.55:01 Dan Johansson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yesterday I did an "emerge --update --deep --verbose --reinstall changed-use --with-bdeps y world --pretend" as usual (about two weeks since doing the last one).
> During this upgrade a few X-related libs and programs got updated (list below). After this upgrade I have a strange problem with my dual-monitor setup - the monitors are "half-swapped".
> Let me explain what I mean with "half-swapped":
> I have two monitors setup on my system, acting as one big desktop (KDE by the way).
> On each monitor I have some icons and widgets (different icons and widgets on each monitor).
> Before when I moved my mouse to the right edge of the left monitor and it "continued" over to the left edge of the right monitor (as you normally wold would have it in a dual-monitor setup).
> After the upgrade it is like this:
> On each monitor the "correct" icons and widgets are there (the icons and widgets of my left monitor is still on the left monitor, and the same for the right one).
> BUT: Now I have to move my mouse to the left edge of the left monitor to have it to "jump" to the right edge of the right monitor. This is a little bit "confusing" to say the least.
> What I also have noticed is the the KDE-Pager shows the open windows on the "wrong side" of the "desktop-icon".