System tray and KDE apps?

David Mohr damailings at mcbf.net
Sun May 4 17:42:00 CEST 2008


On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Bjørn T Johansen <btj at havleik.no> wrote:
> 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

I have a very similar setup, and it works well by placing a systray
onto each screens

~David



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