System tray and KDE apps?

Bjørn T Johansen btj at havleik.no
Sun May 4 11:46:18 CEST 2008


On Sat, 3 May 2008 17:58:40 -0700
"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 May 2008 00:28:45 +0200 Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> > 
> > I seem to have "solved" the problem... I forgot to mention that I am
> > running dual screen and I just tried something... I tried to run
> > kopete on the other screen and whoola; the kopete icon was inside the
> > system tray...
> > 
> > So my new question is, does this mean that the kde apps only work
> > with my system tray on the other screen or is there a workaround?
> > (Gnome apps works as they should...)
> 
> Ahhh, that makes a bit of sense.  The systray is a "per screen"
> entity.  If you use "old style" multihead, your X display is considered
> to have multiple screens, and so if you want to do it this way, you'd
> have to have a systray on each screen.  If you use Xinerama or XRandR
> 1.2 ("new style" multihead), then your physical screens are considered
> just multiple monitors of a single X screen, and you don't have to
> worry about these things. (Yes, this is ridiculously confusing and
> retarded.)

Not sure if I understood... I want my screens to be two separate screens, i.e. I want to be able to have virtual
desktops on both and also separate panels on each screen, i.e not just one large screen... Can this be configured more
than one way? And if so, which is the correct way?

What I am doing now, is to define it like this:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        Screen      1  "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection


BTJ



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