From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QMluW-0001Oe-8Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 May 2011 18:55:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E6371C151; Wed, 18 May 2011 18:54:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1811C151 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 18:54:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so1844850wyi.40 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 11:54:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=DPRuG8fGB/iOgxnQuA7MLvzxLr5tdjFhYvh7C6TDUDA=; b=ccgQVT7oT/DDq4Y1qAcQGgIQgW/nHn09NY/lYQUH/rEg1gnlFOxugYalWWr9L6Tntp HRl4CMbUP42MSx7jaXHdqpY7bRCL0XOia7S8cY3S6K1Uxw1Oci1/mOGxWivhANIRIh6o 90NSBN/710QyLf2N15YrkS0FPB2JoEkWl0T04= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=pvjLxZGY2HEvYdoE+vcamf/wYt4N/XdzjUFKMW0nip7HZMNu7J9UKFvDyeuYBXen+R VqE5WMU9CzdByf1b4NLcWalbEaLKDzrLKiqItBkHECCk/AIcGQURaX4hFlj7dtLFFnTM 15A5FcsTJyM0WMQf5pYGAVgmuc0eaERliXr/I= Received: by 10.227.182.74 with SMTP id cb10mr2222325wbb.48.1305744865331; Wed, 18 May 2011 11:54:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o6sm1139427wbo.37.2011.05.18.11.54.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 18 May 2011 11:54:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 with two monitors does not respect boundaries/edges between them Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 20:53:38 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-ck-r1; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105182053.38886.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8bb57f18219ca829180ee86734de1267 Apparently, though unproven, at 05:50 on Wednesday 18 May 2011, Bill Longman did opine thusly: > I don't know if this is considered hijacking this thread or not but I have > a similar issue getting my kde to remember its screen layout. Two screens > with different resolutions and kde just will NOT remember what I tell it > to do. > > Is there some secret X mojo I have to do to the X configuration files Yes. Delete them. > to > augment what kde knows about the display geometry? What's more annoying is > that I have other machines that have no problem. What's the general > consensus for configuring multiple heads? Just go with xorg.conf? Add > Monitor sections in xorg.conf.d? Do you have an xorg.conf? I suspect X has correctly figured out what you have and then you turn around and tell it something different. Whereupon it believes you. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com