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 1Nmqox-00056h-JU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:49:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78BF4E094E; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f216.google.com (mail-gx0-f216.google.com [209.85.217.216]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 581D7E094E for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk8 with SMTP id 8so540895gxk.9 for ; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:48:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=LUDdDoEo5SvjGSVdgUh61TgbCrHMBc0w0zD4QSwfRI8=; b=w5BpTB09dEn+37gWP8n3PqiXYODjV8Ct76tWD/65+3OxGoLvv3LHxte8osCz9rmneq LD30Hfo5QtIU9gikHE7FTL44mDEFLzcmxAWiHEPItAu9CwJzezgRTDDQoXUmrKaWCE0w jonmc2FR2xayUuDpsW36oYXMCxDdRZ0X9OCs4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=KFcFOI3rRlwwv3omHM2kqAK1dRga8Knolcs7pwv5uZVp60B7nnUliajUmo3fJBrzx9 x/azkHDInzDfZZC3yamp801UjmUzaFt3CwYUhJomEMW3nQUMTP/r3CVv5GrCMEaHxc3/ aUI9R5CX0MOLieUf2nMaJe7SYbOJgcKlPPi7o= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.127.29 with SMTP id z29mr1235032ybc.39.1267631320065; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:48:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201003012122.29314.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <9acccfe51002231827q26e94e64s7f29ec46b6675156@mail.gmail.com> <201003012030.27972.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4B8C1066.8030908@gmail.com> <201003012122.29314.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:48:39 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 917750812f4881c3 Message-ID: <58965d8a1003030748j649f110csf53b0dcfdf66f6d5@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here! From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: e09ca86e-321f-4c7f-912b-8b352aedf0c0 X-Archives-Hash: 5c321daacbeb3dbcfbce2f273e04a868 On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > My pet peeve is Desktop. I have two monitors at work and use two X screens. > KDE wants to create a Desktop and a Desktop-1 directory. I want it to just use > the same set of files for both - background, icons, plasma widgets must be the > same on both monitors, but actual app windows running there independent. This > seems perfectly reasonable to me - e17 does it out the box - but thus far I > have not found the magic voodoo spell that makes it happen. Can you symlink Desktop-1 to Desktop? ( I only have 1 monitor and have never tried this... so forgive me if it's a stupid idea)