Help? Xinerama with two cards

[Thomas Lübking]

On Samstag, 13. Juli 2013 07:24:37 CEST, David Iannucci wrote:
>>>> KDE 4.11 has KScreen, which is supposed to provide easy management
>>>> of multi screen configuration.
>> 
>>> Trying to go more minimalist, not more bloatist :-) :-)
>> 
>> You might have to anyway. According to the last section on
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multihead#Xinerama it appears
>> what's getting in the way of success is KDE itself.
>
> Felix, thanks again. As for KDE, this link's info is dated 2012, and so
> I assume it's referring to KDE4, whereas I'm running KDE3.5. I can hope
> that my KDE3 will continue working in the long run, but if I have to
> ditch it, it'll be ok, and probably even a good thing :=)

Current KDE 4 versions (4.7 - ) should support randr fine and for recent (4.10) ones, zaphod has a pending issue on kglobalaccel (the global shortcut manager) - whether that would also apply to xinerama i'm frankly not sure about, but "inaccessible" i'd have to see.

Cheers,
Thomas