Bug 197327

Summary: When a second screen is plugged in, the user cannot separate them to have a dual screen desktop.
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Gabriel Limoges <Party_time21>
Component: kcm_randrAssignee: Gustavo Pichorim Boiko <gustavo.boiko>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: finex
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Gabriel Limoges 2009-06-20 23:19:24 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    I Don't Know

When a second screen is plugged in, the user cannot separate them to have a dual screen desktop.

- Boot linux.
- Make sure that a second screen is plugged to the computer (laptop).
- Notice that both are clones.
- Go in display settings.
- Set the resolution for the second screen (As default the same as the 1st screen).
- Try to make the second screen asides the first one.
- Notice that the user can't set the second screen to be asides the first one.

Note: If the user put an higher resolution on the second screen than the first one, the first screen becomes totally useless since the user can't see the task bar.

Note: Clicking on the green rectangles that reprensent the screen does absolutely nothing.

Note: Clicking the ''Identify outputs'' button shows both screen names on both screens.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2009-06-30 09:24:55 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 180437 ***