Turn Off KDE Multiple Monitor Support

[jk121960]

HI, I had 3 monitors and had to give up 1, KDE insists now on enabling multi monitor support, this doesn't allow the straddling of monitors with one application, further I use my apps from VBox in seamless and all guest apps are forced into that one monitor, I cant move them to the other. Kinda defeats the point of dual monitors, it's driving me nuts. Somebody has to know how to disable it, like in a config file or something. When I had 3 monitors I couldn't enable it if I wanted to.

Any help is appreciated,

thanks

--jerry

[Rubberman]

What is your video board(s), and are you using the default video driver, or a proprietary driver?

[jk121960]

What is your video board(s), and are you using the default video driver, or a proprietary driver?

Hi and thanks I had all but given up hope somebody would answer this one. I am using an Nvidia 9800GT and I am using the latest Nvidia Proprietary, 285. I dont think this is misbehaving, I just dont know where to turn off this control so that the two monitors are once again a single screen rather than 2 seperate that you have access to. You can't maximize accross the divide and task manager is on each screen rather than across the total. Widgets created on one screen have to stay there, the list goes on and I find it annoying. not to metion the fact that is doesnt allow you to spread out VBox apps when in seemless mode, which is where I am most of the time.

sorry missed something the bhaviour is consistent across bith Debian and Arch.

Anything you know is appreciated thanks again.

--jerry

[Rubberman]

Ok. Run the nVidia X server settings tool (in System->Preferences menu) and disable twin view. You can use that so set it back to a single display.

[jk121960]

Ok. Run the nVidia X server settings tool (in System->Preferences menu) and disable twin view. You can use that so set it back to a single display.

if I disable twinview I will have to seperate X' and apps wont move at all between them.

--jerry

[Rubberman]

You might try running the nvidia-settings and/or nvidia-xconfig tools to reset your xorg.conf settings since you only have 2 displays now. Then you should be able to enable twinview to bridge the displays.

[jk121960]

Nobody really seems to get it, so I am going to mark this one closed, I ran into the same problem on gnome so it isn't KDE specifically

thanks again

[Rubberman]

Nobody really seems to get it, so I am going to mark this one closed, I ran into the same problem on gnome so it isn't KDE specifically

thanks again

If we "don't get it", then perhaps you have not been clear enough in your postings as to:

1. What the real problem is
2. What you have done to remedy it
3. What your hardware/software environment is
4. Clarity on what you really need/want to do

There are a lot of smart people trying to help others on these forums, and most of the time, we can get people sorted out, even when they have weird hardware and non-standard devices.

So, good luck, and I hope you get yourself sorted out.

[jk121960]

I meant no disrespect at all and I apologize if someone misunderstood that, and besides as I indicated also I ran into the problem with gnome also, so this isn't a KDE issue, therefore I closed the post as not to misdirect help any further.

--jerry

[MikeTbob]

It's all good, no one is is upset. Just a little bit of confusion. I'll go ahead and mark this thread as closed. If you decide that you'd like to re-investigate the problem, feel free to start a new thread and give as much info as possible.