How to setup dual head?

[Christian González]

2009/10/6 Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>

> Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>
>
> > Later on, I told my colleagues that KDE improved a lot since 4.0 and
> > they should give a try to 4.3. For a demonstration I installed KDE on
> > my machine. I logged in and the first thing to do was to setup the
> > dual head. I opened System Settings and as soon as I clicked on the
> > Display, X crashed and I was thrown out. It was really a bad
> > experience for a demonstration (kind of like Bill Gates' WinME video).
> > I logged back in and ran krandrtray. This one crashed X too. I clicked
> > on whatever I can find regarding the desktop setup and I found that
> > everything on KDE that is related to the X settings crashes X.
> >
> > I then had to spend 15 minutes to write an xorg.conf file from scratch
> > to make the dual head work, while people were making comments in the
> > lines of "this is why I don't like KDE"... :(
>
> X crashing is almost certainly a driver bug (ie, querying randr items from
> the X server should be a relatively safe operation).
>

I agree, but we have to say that krandrtray is almost useless for dual head,
no matter what driver are you using.

I have an Intel graphic card, and when I want to use extended desktop, I
have to use xrandr from Konsole, or a 3rd-parthy app like Arandr (great and
simple, but is GTK).

Do you know if KDE devs have plans for improving krandrtray? Or do yo know
about an KDE/Qt alternative?
-- 
Christian González G.
http://chgonzalez.blogspot.com
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