Version: (using KDE 4.4.0) Compiler: gcc (Gentoo 4.3.4 p1.0, pie-10.1.5) 4.3.4 OS: Linux Installed from: Gentoo Packages KDE's handling of multiple separate screens has broken since KDE 3.5. It cannot handle situations in which: * Screens are different sizes, and therefore need to be handled separately. * Screens are on two different physical cards. * Xinerama is turned off. * NVidia's TwinView is turned off. In other words, you have :0.0 and :0.1, side by side, and the user set it up that way because it's the only way it works. Of course, there's limitations. You can't move windows from one screen to another, but users expect that because they're different screens on the same X11 server, and Xinerama is turned off. Xinerama will not help, so you cannot depend on it. What happens: KDE 4.x (including 4.4) displays only on :0.0 and refuses to take up :0.1 What should of happened: KDE takes up both displays. What happened in 3.5: KDE takes up both displays.
Created attachment 40973 [details] xorg.conf that describes both monitors Here's my current xorg.conf that describes both screens. This works (with some minor problems) in KDE 3.5.
The same problem. KWin 'maximise' do not correctly handles screen :0.1 - the resolution is taken from :0.0. Plasma does not start on screen:0.1 Keyboard shortcuts do not work on screen :0.1 In KDE 3.5 all works well.
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This bug is open since 2010-02-21 and _the_ major limitation to use KDE-4 (almost EOL now) on serious multi-monitor workstation setups till today = 2015-09-07. Is anybody working at this? Any hope for improvement in KDE-5 ?
(In addition to Manfred Knick from comment #4) I'd be happy to supply my configs (2 "card"s with 1+3=4 monitors = four screens) or other information - feel free to ask for whatever might help.
(In reply to Manfred Knick from comment #4) > Any hope for improvement in KDE-5 ? Answer: Not yet - again: . . . PLASMA only opens first screen and ignores all the rest. (Mouse flows over all four of them; plain X works as well as twm, fluxbox, xfce, ...) Embarrassing.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 256242 ***