Well, I've just had the new version of Linux Mint installed with KDE 4.2 and the whole plasma dashboard business, and it was working fine, until today, when I logged in, there are two dashboards. One for each monitor, each complete with it's own Cashew. This is incredibly irritating as it's far from what I want.

I could provide screenshots if you need help comprehending the problem, but I'll do those on requests. Ideally, I'd love to know if theres anyway I can get rid of this other dashboard, so I can just have 1 running across both monitors, like it did originally.

Really any help would be appreciated.

there is no good way to offer a screen-spanning desktop that doesn't randomly break when screen resolutions or arrangements change. if it was working previously for you, that was random "luck" based on qt not detecting you had 2 screens properly. kephal does a much better job of that now.

Harlequin wrote:Well, I've just had the new version of Linux Mint installed with KDE 4.2 and the whole plasma dashboard business, and it was working fine, until today, when I logged in, there are two dashboards. One for each monitor, each complete with it's own Cashew. This is incredibly irritating as it's far from what I want.

I could provide screenshots if you need help comprehending the problem, but I'll do those on requests. Ideally, I'd love to know if theres anyway I can get rid of this other dashboard, so I can just have 1 running across both monitors, like it did originally.

Really any help would be appreciated.

I went around with this and was able to get just one dashboard by fiddling with xorg.conf. If you're using an nvidia card (I assume you are as you mentioned Twinview), try changing/adding these lines to the "Device" section of xorg.conf:

Option "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" "True"
Option "TwinView" "True"

On my system, with them both set to "True" I have the dual cashews; change either or both to "False" - it worked for me that way a few tweaks ago, but I settled for this arrangement as I dislike having full-screen movies on mplayer being expanded to fill both displays...