[gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work

[gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work

[Xi Shen]

hi,

my system is gentoo amd64, kde-4.3, my graphic card is nvidia's. i use
nvidia-settings to set up my two displayer to work in the tweenview
mode. it supposed to have two separate desktop, instead it have a
large desktop expand two displayer.

on gnome and windows, tweenview always sets up two separate desktop.
how can i set this on kde?


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Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 26 December 2009 19:29:10 Xi Shen wrote:
> hi,
> 
> my system is gentoo amd64, kde-4.3, my graphic card is nvidia's. i use
> nvidia-settings to set up my two displayer to work in the tweenview
> mode. it supposed to have two separate desktop, instead it have a
> large desktop expand two displayer.
> 
> on gnome and windows, tweenview always sets up two separate desktop.
> how can i set this on kde?
> 

Per the nvidia-driver docs (/usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-190.53/README.bz2), 
TwinView is designed to give you one large desktop and there's not much you 
can do about that in KDE.

See Chap 15 of that same doc for a description of how to configure two 
separate screens.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work

[Xi Shen]

have they changed the definition of the word, or i were wrong at the
first place?


On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 December 2009 19:29:10 Xi Shen wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> my system is gentoo amd64, kde-4.3, my graphic card is nvidia's. i use
>> nvidia-settings to set up my two displayer to work in the tweenview
>> mode. it supposed to have two separate desktop, instead it have a
>> large desktop expand two displayer.
>>
>> on gnome and windows, tweenview always sets up two separate desktop.
>> how can i set this on kde?
>>
>
> Per the nvidia-driver docs (/usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-190.53/README.bz2),
> TwinView is designed to give you one large desktop and there's not much you
> can do about that in KDE.
>
> See Chap 15 of that same doc for a description of how to configure two
> separate screens.
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
>



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Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work

[Xi Shen]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Xi Shen <davidshen84@googlemail.com> wrote:
> have they changed the definition of the word, or i were wrong at the
> first place?
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday 26 December 2009 19:29:10 Xi Shen wrote:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> my system is gentoo amd64, kde-4.3, my graphic card is nvidia's. i use
>>> nvidia-settings to set up my two displayer to work in the tweenview
>>> mode. it supposed to have two separate desktop, instead it have a
>>> large desktop expand two displayer.
>>>
>>> on gnome and windows, tweenview always sets up two separate desktop.
>>> how can i set this on kde?
>>>
>>
>> Per the nvidia-driver docs (/usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-190.53/README.bz2),
>> TwinView is designed to give you one large desktop and there's not much you
>> can do about that in KDE.
>>
>> See Chap 15 of that same doc for a description of how to configure two
>> separate screens.
>>
>> --
>> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> David Shen
>
> http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
> http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
>


why i cannot find the file you mentioned? it looks like i do not have
it installed. how can i install it?


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David Shen

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Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work

[John H. Moe]

Xi Shen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Xi Shen <davidshen84@googlemail.com> wrote:
>   
>> have they changed the definition of the word, or i were wrong at the
>> first place?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Saturday 26 December 2009 19:29:10 Xi Shen wrote:
>>>       
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> my system is gentoo amd64, kde-4.3, my graphic card is nvidia's. i use
>>>> nvidia-settings to set up my two displayer to work in the tweenview
>>>> mode. it supposed to have two separate desktop, instead it have a
>>>> large desktop expand two displayer.
>>>>
>>>> on gnome and windows, tweenview always sets up two separate desktop.
>>>> how can i set this on kde?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Per the nvidia-driver docs (/usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-190.53/README.bz2),
>>> TwinView is designed to give you one large desktop and there's not much you
>>> can do about that in KDE.
>>>
>>> See Chap 15 of that same doc for a description of how to configure two
>>> separate screens.
>>>
>>> --
>>> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>> David Shen
>>
>> http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
>> http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
>>
>>     
>
>
> why i cannot find the file you mentioned? it looks like i do not have
> it installed. how can i install it?
>
>
>   
It should get installed with nvidia-drivers:

jmoe@jhb5970 ~ $ equery belongs
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-185.18.36/README.bz2
[ Searching for file(s)
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-185.18.36/README.bz2 in *... ]
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-185.18.36
(/usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-185.18.36/README.bz2)

You may have to substitute your nvidia-drivers version number for the
185.18.36 in my path, or the 190.53 in Alan's path?

John H. Moe

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 28 December 2009 05:54:31 Xi Shen wrote:
> have they changed the definition of the word, or i were wrong at the
> first place?

I've never heard of tweenview, but Nvidia has had a thing called TwinView for 
ages.

And nvidia also likes to do their own thing in their own way. They even rip 
out the X DRI and GLX stuff and replace it with their own, so they could 
easily make TwinView work differently as well...

But I haven't seen that they did change things. For me, it's working as it 
always did.

> 
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 December 2009 19:29:10 Xi Shen wrote:
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> my system is gentoo amd64, kde-4.3, my graphic card is nvidia's. i use
> >> nvidia-settings to set up my two displayer to work in the tweenview
> >> mode. it supposed to have two separate desktop, instead it have a
> >> large desktop expand two displayer.
> >>
> >> on gnome and windows, tweenview always sets up two separate desktop.
> >> how can i set this on kde?
> >
> > Per the nvidia-driver docs
> > (/usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-190.53/README.bz2), TwinView is designed
> > to give you one large desktop and there's not much you can do about that
> > in KDE.
> >
> > See Chap 15 of that same doc for a description of how to configure two
> > separate screens.
> >
> > --
> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
> 

-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work

[Xi Shen]

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On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 December 2009 19:29:10 Xi Shen wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> my system is gentoo amd64, kde-4.3, my graphic card is nvidia's. i use
>> nvidia-settings to set up my two displayer to work in the tweenview
>> mode. it supposed to have two separate desktop, instead it have a
>> large desktop expand two displayer.
>>
>> on gnome and windows, tweenview always sets up two separate desktop.
>> how can i set this on kde?
>>
>
> Per the nvidia-driver docs (/usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-190.53/README.bz2),
> TwinView is designed to give you one large desktop and there's not much you
> can do about that in KDE.
>
> See Chap 15 of that same doc for a description of how to configure two
> separate screens.
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
>


i found this README file. i do not know why it is not installed on one
of my gentoo server.

i followed the chapter 15 to configure my xorg.conf file. and i made a
very little progress :)

now, after X started, i only have only one monitor displaying a
desktop. the other monitor is black, however, i can move my mouse to
that monitor. but i cannot move any window to that monitor. when i
move my mouse to that monitor, the mouse is displayed as a "X", looks
like when you run "X -config xorg.conf.new" to test if the X is set up
correctly. i attached my xorg.conf file. i hope you can help me fix
this ;)


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[-- Attachment #2: xorg.conf --]
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# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (root@david-gentoo)  Thu Jan  7 13:23:50 CST 2010

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    Screen      1   "Screen1" leftOf "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    ModelName       "LED"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor1"
    ModelName      "ViewSonic VA1703wb-2"
    HorizSync       24.0 - 70.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 75.0
    # Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "Quadro NVS 140M"
    Screen          0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "Quadro NVS 140M"
    Screen          1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1440x900"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen1"
    Device         "Device1"
    Monitor        "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1440x900"
    EndSubSection
EndSection