Hi,

I have a configuration with two nVidia dualhead graphics cards, running twinview for an extended desktop (card0, screen0, 3200x1200) and twinview in clone mode (card1, screen1, 1280x1024). Now the problem is that the screen1, is missing window decorations, and the running applications does not show up in the panel.
This makes moving the applications difficult at best, I can't get the keyboard input to a terminal in screen1, and I can't change the order of the applications...

Both screens show individual desktops, screen1 is above screen0 and moving the mouse pointer over to screen1 works, I can start applications but not move the windows once started.

I tried with gnome, and there everything is fine, if one likes gnome...
The system is a Debian Lenny 2.6.26-1-686 and I'm running kde 3.5 from that distro.

I'm sure it's something simple I have overlooked, but I can't figure out what
Thanks,
Carl-Magnus, Finland

Hi,
that's exactly what I'm experiencing! Started circa 10 days ago and no idea what's the reason. I'm not aware of any update etc.
My configuration: Debian lenny, KDE 3.5, Matrox G550 dual-head, screen0 1680x1050, screen1 1280x1024. Same strange keyboard behavior, window decoration missing, panel showing only single virtual desktop, no running application on the panel, mouse works fine.
Additionally, I found, that when creating new user account, second desktop is working correctly, but just for the first login. When logging for second and more times, second desktop goes wrong.

Any idea? I'm going slightly mad ...

Milan

Hi,

I had almost forgot about this thred, sorry about that.
The problem seems to be that there is no window manager for the second screen.
My solution, is not that elegant, but it works for me...

I created a script file:

#!/bin/sh
DISPLAY=:0.1 kdm&
startkde

Running this generates an error that the window manager is already running or something similar, and starts the window manager for the second display and everything works.
As I never reboot my computer, I run this manually. Could be placed in an apropriate place to run automatically.

- Nappe

After my X crashed, this script didn't work anymore, I must have done something before this to make things work...

Simple solution:
As root, run kwin in a terminal window, the window manager starts and everything works as expected.

Rebooted and tested, this still works.

- Nappe

I would not recommend running KWin as root. By the way your script should look like this, and should be run on login as your user.

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#!/bin/sh
DISPLAY=:0.1
kwin &