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 Gonz?lez G. http://chgonzalez.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20091006/3015ef44/attachment.html
