KDE4 desktop and Widget issues

[flebber]

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I tried fixing kde4 display issue by when in kde4 killing plasma removing all .kde and .kde4 files and then restarting plasma but still no go it cleaned up a few minor things but still have the incorrect taskbar and multiple misfitting screens.


regarding fedora and kde4, it is planned to be default kde in Fedora 9 at the moment the best way to try it would probably be the live spin with kde4 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg00145.html
this is the plans for kde4 from the fedora wiki Releases/FeatureKDE4 - Fedora Project Wiki and here is an a thread from fedora forum which shows how to enable development repo's which kde4 is in, my advice use live spins and check out the various livecd's - rawhides here Fedora Project until its ready for everyday use, but here is the link if you wanna have a go FedoraForum.org - Kde 4

[flebber]

I commented out all references to my 2nd screen in xorg.conf, and now kde4 works fine. So I will just have to change over xorg's files when swapping between kde3 and kde4 until kde4 supports multiple screens.

This is the working xorg

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Thu Oct  4 10:34:46 PDT 2007

# xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"

    # Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet
    #    InputDevice     "stylus"    "SendCoreEvents"
    #    InputDevice     "cursor"    "SendCoreEvents"
    #    InputDevice     "eraser"    "SendCoreEvents"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
#    Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "stylus"
    Driver         "wacom"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
    Option         "Type" "stylus"
    Option         "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "eraser"
    Driver         "wacom"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
    Option         "Type" "eraser"
    Option         "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "cursor"
    Driver         "wacom"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
    Option         "Type" "cursor"
    Option         "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Generic Monitor"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 70.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 160.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "LG L194WT"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

#Section "Monitor"
#    Identifier     "Monitor1"
#    VendorName     "Unknown"
#    ModelName      "TV-0"
#    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
#    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
#EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200]"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Option         "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 6200"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
    Screen          0
EndSection

#Section "Device"
#    Identifier     "Videocard1"
#    Driver         "nvidia"
#    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
#    BoardName      "GeForce 6200"
#    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
#    Screen          1
#EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200]"
    Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
EndSection

#Section "Screen"
#    Identifier     "Screen1"
#    Device         "Videocard1"
#    Monitor        "Monitor1"
#    DefaultDepth    24
#    Option         "TwinView" "0"
#    Option         "metamodes" "TV: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
#EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

[i92guboj]

I didn't quote your post in post #5. I can see that xinerama is disabled and thats why I wrote that contents of xorg.conf file are correct.

Correct or not, now you can see that it WAS the problem.

The problem is that kde4 really does not care about correctness at all. It would be really hard to make the xinerama/twinview support in kde4 any worse Sadly... There are some wm's that do not have xinerama support, but at least, they are usable. Kde4 is not.

[flebber]

Well I guess can only wait to see when KDE4 does support it. KDE4 is supposed to exceed KDE3 so at some point it should support it, unrelated to this there are many missing features that are in kde3. Rome wasn't built in a day so a reasonable man would have to suspect only from 4.1 should it start to show completeness and probably featureful any production usable coming from there into 4.2.

Not knocking it in any way in its present form because as such it exceeded my expectations having seen the beta's.

[prasadae31]

well, I ran into the same issue with kde4. Is there a bug raised on this?

[flebber]

I did raise a bug but they don't see it as a bug, so they closed it.

[prasadae31]

I did raise a bug but they don't see it as a bug, so they closed it.

Oh, well. can you give me the bug id? I can try and see what part of it is not considered as a bug.

Or is it not a top priority right now, considering the fact that there are other bigger issues to solve?

[flebber]

Maybe I phrased it wrong or as you say it just isn't a priority , the bug is 190195.

[prasadae31]

I have raised a bug on Plasma (ID:157844)
Bug 157844 - KDE4 refuses to show desktop on a xinerama enabled multiscreen setup

If you have the time, can you read through it and see if you are facing the same problems which I have commented on. If you do, it would really help if you comment on the bug as reproducible.

As it seems that KDE4 does support xinerama. And if you have got the xinerama to work, there is nothing better. (Do tell me how though!)

[flebber]

I did update the bug, I do not use xinerama usually. I physically couldn't get a dual display to work on kde4. I updated the bug with my xorg and details.