Version: (using KDE 4.1.0) OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages When separate X screens setting are enabled with nvidia gpu and the screens are of different formats (4:3 and 16:9) the desktop on the 4:3 will take 16:9 shape leaving a dead area at the bottom of the screen. This might be a nvidia-driver bug, but it worked fine with kde 3.5.[something] given the exact same settings in nvidia-settings and the verry same driver installed. Also, on the 16:9 screen there is no desktop, only a black screen. One can move the mouse around and even start applications on the 16:9 screen with DISPLAY=:0.1, but no desktop is shown.
Same problem here. I found out that I can set the desktop on my primary screen to the correct resolution by deleting the second desktop entry in ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletrc followed by a restart of xdm. After reboot my desktop is being set to the wrong condition again.
Is this still valid for kde 4.2 ?
Not exactly the same but I still have problems. Before, the desktop got cut off at the bottom of the screen. "...the desktop on the 4:3 will take 16:9 shape leaving a dead area at the bottom of the screen." Now the desktop WILL fill the hole 4:3 screen, BUT it also expands beyond the 4:3 screen so that some of the desktop is outside the screen area. I'm not sure, but I think it still takes 16:9-shape, witch would make sense. The second (16:9) screen is still black, meaning no desktop, only a really ugly cross-looking pointer, and the ability to start up an app in it. For me personally, this would work if the desktop on the 4:3-screen would not take 16:9-shape because I only want to use it to run XBMC on the second screen. But of course that's just me. To day I'm running Ubuntu Intrepid with KDE 4.2 and an nvidia EN7200GS with driver version 180.11. Hope this helps, please ask for more info if you need it.
(In reply to comment #3) > Not exactly the same but I still have problems. > > Before, the desktop got cut off at the bottom of the screen. > "...the desktop on the 4:3 will take 16:9 shape > leaving a dead area at the bottom of the screen." > > Now the desktop WILL fill the hole 4:3 screen, BUT it also expands beyond the > 4:3 screen so that some of the desktop is outside the screen area. I'm not > sure, but I think it still takes 16:9-shape, witch would make sense. > > The second (16:9) screen is still black, meaning no desktop, only a really ugly > cross-looking pointer, and the ability to start up an app in it. > > For me personally, this would work if the desktop on the 4:3-screen would not > take 16:9-shape because I only want to use it to run XBMC on the second screen. > But of course that's just me. > > To day I'm running Ubuntu Intrepid with KDE 4.2 and an nvidia EN7200GS with > driver version 180.11. > > Hope this helps, please ask for more info if you need it. Just remembered, when I enable the 'separeted X screens'-setting, the desktop effects turns off.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 158850 ***