Bug 105706 - can't move tray notification on a dual screen (nvidia twien view)
Summary: can't move tray notification on a dual screen (nvidia twien view)
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: konversation
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konversation Developers
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Reported: 2005-05-15 14:48 UTC by Jerome Despatis
Modified: 2006-07-03 03:32 UTC (History)
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Description Jerome Despatis 2005-05-15 14:48:05 UTC
Version:           0.16 #3000 (using KDE 3.3.2,  (3.1))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.8-2-686

In Konversation settings, in tray notification section, i can move the notification on screen to put it at a specific position.

It works great, BUT i have a dual screen (in fact an NVIDIA card, and i have Xfree86 configured with Twin View activated), and i can only move this tray notification on a single screen, not the other one

In fact, i've try the same thing with amarok, and i get the same result. I don't know where the bug comes from...

Hope it will help
Comment 1 Peter Simonsson 2006-02-10 12:46:50 UTC
Is this still a problem with 0.19 (or later)?
Comment 2 Niek Beernink 2006-07-03 02:59:06 UTC
This is a KDE limitation. You can only have one system tray per KDE session. 

I'm going to assume you added a secondary taskbar via right-click kicker => Add New Panel => External Taskbar and you can't move the system tray over or can't add any applets to that taskbar. I assume this is by design, because it's just that, a taskbar. For that reason you can't add applets to it.

What you probably want is to have the kicker span both screens and move the system tray to the secondary monitor (since it's only possible to have one system tray, see above).  In order to that, do the following; 

1. Right-click the kicker and select "Configure Panel".
2. In the arrangement section, Xinerama screen: All screens. This makes the kicker spread over all available screens.
3. Click OK.
4. Right-click the kicker and select "Add Applet tp panel", in the search box, type taskbar, there should be only 1 result. Select it and click "Add to panel".
5. Now that you have two taskbars on the kicker, move one of them to the other display by clicking on the left side of it and selecting move taskbar. Then move it in place.

Move the system tray in the same manner.

Most likely, both taskbars will be showing the exact same tasks on all screens. If you want to separate the tasks per screen;
1. Right-click on the kicker, select "Configure Panel"
2. In the Taskbar section, uncheck "Show windows from all screens". 
3. Click OK and you should be set.
Comment 3 Eike Hein 2006-07-03 03:32:12 UTC
In any case, the bug report isn't comprehensible as-is. Tray would suggest either the tray icon itself or a KPassivePopup created by KNotify at the tray icon's location, but being able to move it on the screen while browsing the prefs would suggest the OSD, which has nothing to do with the system tray. The OSD, then, has seen a number of multi-head fixes in releases post the creation date of this report, and no new report has been filed since.

Closing as INVALID, please reopen with more information if there's still a problem.