FC2, KDE, ATI: can't move/resize windows on one screen in dual head
Ben Steeves
ben.steeves at gmail.com
Sun Nov 28 04:18:15 UTC 2004
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:54:25 -0600, James Jones <jamesjones01 at mchsi.com> wrote:
> My wife's computer has FC2, and she prefers KDE. I have set her up with
> an ATI Radeon 7500 graphics card, and now have it going in dual head mode.
>
> We now find that sometimes, she is unable to move or resize windows on
> one screen. We already know about not being able to move windows from
> one screen to another; that's a shame, but we can live with it. This
> isn't that; windows opened on one screen refuse to move or resize at
> all. Windows opened on the other screen, OTOH, work fine.
>
> If she logs out and logs back on, the problem goes away, at least for a
> while.
>
> What could be causing this?
Well, it sounds like you have two different displays configured (you
can prove this by opening up xterms on both screens and issuing "echo
$DISPLAY".
Since you're running two screens, it's very possible that there's no
window manager running on the second screen. I don't have KDE
installed so I don't know the exact procedure for starting kwin on the
other head, but it's probably something like "kwin --display :0.1".
Ben
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