System tray and KDE apps?

[Bjørn T Johansen]

On Sun, 4 May 2008 11:09:59 -0700
"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 May 2008 11:46:18 +0200 Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 3 May 2008 17:58:40 -0700
> > "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> > 
> >
> > > 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?
> 
> There really isn't a "correct" way, but the way you're using with two
> separate screens seems to be less favored these days, and current and
> future work in X.org is to use XRandR 1.2-style multi-monitor (which is
> basically an enhanced version of Xinerama).  This supports hot-plugging
> monitors and dynamically reconfiguring your display based on whatever's
> plugged in at the moment, among other things.  Like Xinerama, it uses a
> single logical screen with multiple sub-monitors, so you wouldn't be
> able to (for example) switch workspaces independently on each screen
> without special WM support (which xfwm4 does not have).
> 
> > 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
> 
> Right, that's perfectly fine, but you'll get two separate X screens on
> on your X display, rather than a single X screen with multiple
> monitors.  Generally, to set this up the "new" way, you'd add:
> 
> Option     "XRandR12"  "on"
> 
> to your Device section (if your driver/X server supports it), or
> 
> Option     "Xinerama"  "on"
> 
> to... erm... either Device or ServerLayout; can't remember.
> 
> If you want to stick with your current setup, that's fine, but you'll
> have to put a systray on each screen if you want things to work
> properly when you launch apps on either screen that use it.
> 
> 	-brian

Thx... I will check it out but I don't like that the screens are not independent of each other.... :)

BTJ