Summary: | Plasma 'activity' (ie. X screen related desktops) is messed up using NVidia Twinview) | ||
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Product: | [Plasma] plasma4 | Reporter: | Jerome Vizcaino <j.vizcaino> |
Component: | multiscreen | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | adrian15sgd, asraniel, dpalacio, gilboad, j.maceachern, kde |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Debian testing | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Jerome Vizcaino
2009-04-10 23:17:22 UTC
I'm not sure if it's twinview related or xinerama related, but plasma doesn't seem to be aware to the fact the I have a single screen composed of two displays. Using the default configuration, if I zoom out, I see -two- dual screen activities - instead of a single dual screen activity. I try adding a new activity, and instead of two activities, I get four. (dual screen activities) Far worse, if I select the wrong activity (E.g. Zoom using the right screen cashew and zoom-in into one of the left screen's activities), all you widgets get reordered in one corner of the screen. Any chance of having a "single activity in all the displays" options? - Gilboa Can you reproduce using KDE 4.4.4 or 4.5beta? (In reply to comment #1) > I'm not sure if it's twinview related or xinerama related, but plasma doesn't > seem to be aware to the fact the I have a single screen composed of two > displays. Plasma's logic just places them side by side ignoring screen geometry. I think it would be ideal to place containments equally as their screen geometries, and hide the other containments in the Corona(scene). > Using the default configuration, if I zoom out, I see -two- dual screen > activities - instead of a single dual screen activity. > I try adding a new activity, and instead of two activities, I get four. (dual > screen activities) > Far worse, if I select the wrong activity (E.g. Zoom using the right screen > cashew and zoom-in into one of the left screen's activities), all you widgets > get reordered in one corner of the screen. > > Any chance of having a "single activity in all the displays" options? Current trunk ties all screens to a single activity. So what is the status of this bug? Confirmed. I am using Nvidia with its nvidia-settings tool to add a new screen and I find similar problems. 1) Maximizing a windows on right screen gets into the window getting maximized on the left screen. 2) Although I have desktop-to-activity-mapping activated in left screen I see one desktop background and in right screen I see another desktop background. I think that you should see the same desktop background on both screens although I understand that other people might prefer to have different desktop backgrounds on these different screens. It is normal that you see two different background images, that is intended. You can still set them to use the same manually. I don't have the windows maximize issue > It is normal that you see two different background images, that is intended. > You can still set them to use the same manually. I'll check for that. I do not want to be in Work Desktop/Activity and get a nude girl on the big screen presentation for shareholders because Plasma picks randomly the Porn Desktop/Activity as the big screen background. > I don't have the windows maximize issue When I use nvidia-settings I often check "Set this display as default xorg screen". Might it be the problem? I use it in the hope that my panels are kept in my laptop display and are not displayed at big screen. Maybe you can reproduce the maximize issue by using "Set this display as default xorg screen" in nvidia-settings ? I use this option. What version of the nvidia driver do you use? and kde? i use kde 4.5.3 and nvidia 260.19.12 > I use this option. > > What version of the nvidia driver do you use? and kde? > i use kde 4.5.3 and nvidia 260.19.12 I use KDE 4.4.5 from Debian Unstable. And I use 195.36.31 which seems quite outdated for your driver version. Maybe the unstable binary driver for Nvidia is not as updated as I thought at. I will have to test that 260.19.12 (probably the official Nvidia one) to see if improves my KDE4 problems. Thank you. and kde4.5 has many multiscreen fixes that are not in 4.4. The ZUI (Zooming UI) interface for Activity management/switching has been replaced by an entirely new interface in the upcoming version 4.6 of the Plasma Workspaces. As such, this bug is now being closed. |