Version: (using KDE 4.1.96) OS: Linux Installed from: SuSE RPMs The bug could be related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156475 especially to the last comments. Despite the announcement for 4.2 Final, nothing has changed in the poor management of dual head setups with upcoming 4.2 at least here in 4.2RC. I use the free radeonhd driver, and the connected monitors report their specs nicely, no matter if connected via VGA or DVI. Yet, the KDE configuration app is unable to identify the monitors correctly. Instead of treating them as two independent monitors, they are handled as some kind of overlay. I will attach screenshots. In a terminal, everything is totally fine with the xrandr tool. I can check the screens, I can turn them on an off independently, and I can arrange them to a nice dualhead setup: [code] doe@santenay:~> xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 3840 x 1200 TV_7PIN_DIN disconnected DVI-I_1/digital connected 1280x1024+0+0 360mm x 290mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 59.9 60.0* 59.0 57.9 1280x960 60.0 63.0 62.0 1280x800 75.0 70.0 65.0 73.9 60.0 1152x864 71.0 70.0 1280x768 78.0 72.0 66.0 76.9 60.0 1280x720 83.0 75.3 81.8 67.7 1024x768 79.0 72.7 75.1 75.0 70.1 77.9 66.3 60.0 60.0 59.8 1280x600 85.0 76.7 83.9 68.3 60.0 1024x600 85.0 76.7 83.8 68.3 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 84.7 85.0 85.1 76.7 83.8 72.2 75.0 68.3 60.3 59.9 60.0 56.2 768x576 85.0 84.0 76.7 68.3 60.0 640x480 85.0 85.0 84.4 83.8 75.0 72.8 72.8 75.0 76.7 68.3 60.0 59.9 720x400 85.0 640x400 85.1 640x350 85.1 DVI-I_1/analog disconnected DVI-I_2/digital connected 1680x1050+0+0 473mm x 296mm 1280x1024 75.0 + 59.9 60.0 1680x1050 60.0*+ 59.9 1400x1050 74.8 60.0 1280x960 60.0 1152x864 75.0 74.9 1024x768 75.1 75.0 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 75.0 72.8 75.0 60.0 59.9 720x400 70.1 DVI-I_2/analog disconnected doe@santenay:~> xrandr --output DVI-I_2/digital --off doe@santenay:~> xrandr --output DVI-I_2/digital --mode 1680x1050 --right-of DVI-I_1/digital doe@santenay:~> [/code] The related hardware profile can be found here: http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?uuid=pub_a09c45d5-5b81-4563-9988-ea5064818464
Created attachment 30537 [details] screenshot of the entire desktop after login
Created attachment 30538 [details] screenshot of the entire desktop after manually adjusting screen layout with xrandr
that's not a dual head setup, it's a multiscreen xrandr configuration; the overlay nature is up to the driver, not kde; you're using the RC which is not the final release, and bugs in kephal were fixed after the RC.
Excuse me, I honestly don't care about the exact name. If this issue will be resolved in upcoming 4.2 Final and has been fixed after RC, why does it get an INVALID status instead of RESOLVED? The driver is well capable of what I want it to do. Gnome handles it just the way users expect it. If KDE is still, even in 4.2, not able to cope with these basics, then I can only shout out in utter frustration of what's going on.
Bug is not fixed in 4.2 final. Same behavior as before, the GUI tool is not capable of separating the two monitors and place them. I repeat: it works totally fine on a terminal with xrandr commands, and it works perfectly well with Gnome *on the very same box*. In case I am missing something, please tell me.
Indeed the KDE configuration tool (krandr) does not yet support configuring multiple displays in extended (xinerama-like) mode. There has been some efforts in order to get this working (a framework called kephal) but currently it is only capable of reporting the screen layout correctly to KDE applications. It does not offer a tool to setup it yet.
So, this is what has been announced as "improved multiscreen support" in http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.2-beta2.php ? "Multi-screen support has been improved through the Kephal library, fixing many bugs when running KDE on more than one monitor." "Improved" usually means "works better now". This is not the case. For the average end user, an application to *set up* a multiscreen config is needed prior to use it. Please stop this kind of silly marketing. Promises must be realistic, everything else makes us (I include me as a promotor of the KDE project) look stupid. Also, it is *very* annoying to get bug reports closed as invalid when everyone in his right mind can see it is fully valid. This is not what I as a community member expect. Thanks.
While I agree with you that the user expects everything to run fine (and everything includes setting up multiple monitors), the announce clearly says that the improvement is that when running KDE on a multiple monitor setup things will work (and not go crazy like they did before kephal was implemented). This doesn't mean it will not be implemented. It only means it was not implemented yet. That's why this bug was let opened, showing there are some points to be improved. It is not silly marketing: the announcing does not say anything about full multiple monitor support, it just says the support for it was improved. Was this bug closed as invalid before it was reassigned to me? If it was, I can't really speak for others, but the feedback I gave to the bug report was not saying it is invalid. Instead, I confirmed the bug (which was marked as unconfirmed). The KDE developers are working hard to give the community a usable and productive desktop environment, but unfortunatelly we are not able to do everyghing in one single release: the improvements are happening gradually.
RESOLVED is not currently used as an option under our bugzilla, please do not be offended by the choice of INVALID vs REMIND, etc. Thanks.
Thanks for clarifying!
There are still bugs in the handling of multiscreen setups: fullscreened windows for example get confused on which screen the panel is. That makes them wander behind the panel on the screen with the panel, while they omit exactly the amount of screen real estate corresponding to the panel on exactly the position but the wrong screen. See attached screen shot. This works OK when freshly setup but is wrong upon next login.
Created attachment 31219 [details] full screenshot showing two maximized Konsole applications which confuse the actual location of the panel
I opened a new report to track that issue: bug #185513.
Is there any progress with this bug?
This seems to be a duplicate of http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180437
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 180437 ***