Bug 154193

Summary: krandrtray needs to support two screens with different resolutions
Product: [Unmaintained] krandr Reporter: Richard Fish <bigfish>
Component: krandrtrayAssignee: Gustavo Pichorim Boiko <gustavo.boiko>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: alex.merry, danielstefanmader+kde, felix, myriam, valentin.longchamp, wstephenson
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Richard Fish 2007-12-16 21:57:40 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.97.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

My laptop screen runs natively at 1920x1200, and I have an external 1680x1050 LCD.  Whenever krandrtray is running, it forces both displays to be 1024x768 (the highest common resolution published by both) and goes into clone mode.

Running "xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1920x1200 --output VGA --mode 1680x1050 --right-of LVDS" briefly changes the resolution of both displays and gives an expanded desktop, but krandrtray immediately reverts the changes.

Additionally the configuration dialog for krandrtray allows the different resolutions and screen positions to be configured, but doesn't provide any way to "Apply" the settings.
Comment 1 Felix Möller 2008-04-19 15:42:27 UTC 
I have reported the same at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=350657.

This bug is still valid with 
# rpm -qf `which krandrtray `
kdebase4-workspace-4.0.3-11

on openSUSE 11.0 beta1
Comment 2 Valentin Longchamp 2008-09-04 09:39:44 UTC 
I am experiencing the same here with KDE 4.1 from kubuntu. I have my laptop screen with 1400x1050 resolution and an external screen with 1680x1050 resolution. I have the exact behaviour when I issue this command (with xrandr output for additional info):

valentin@thinkpad:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3080 x 1050, maximum 3200 x 3200
VGA-0 connected 1680x1050+1400+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1680x1050      60.0*
   1400x1050      60.0
   1280x800       60.0
   1280x768       60.0
   1024x768       60.0     59.9
   800x600        60.3     59.9
   640x480        59.9     59.4
LVDS connected 1400x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 286mm x 214mm
   1400x1050      60.0*+   50.0
   1280x1024      59.9
   1280x800       60.0
   1280x768       60.0
   1024x768       60.0
   800x600        60.3
   640x480        60.0     59.9
DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
valentin@thinkpad:~$ xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1680x1050 --right-of LVDS


When krandtray is running, my xrandr commands are immediatly canceled. Furthermore, krandtray not only does not allow the 1680x1050 resolution on the external screen, it also restricts to clone mode (right-of option does not work).
Comment 3 Alex Merry 2010-08-08 01:23:47 UTC 
Does this still happen with a recent KDE 4 release?
Comment 4 Alex Merry 2013-01-11 21:45:14 UTC 
No response, and I have no problem getting KRandRTray to use different resolutions for different monitors.