Using KDE with two monitors with NVDIA proprietary drivers?
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Using KDE with two monitors with NVDIA proprietary drivers?
I've been using XFCE for a fair while now setting my monitors as seperate X screens with no Xinerama or anything like that. It means that applications are stuck on the monitor they open on (as it's the X11 display, 0.0 or 0.1) and lets me play a game full screen on one monitor whilst watching a video full screen on the other.
When I try KDE with my current setup I can only use one screen but can move my mouse to the second.
What are my options for using KDE with a dual monitor setup on NVIDIA card with binary blob drivers?
Last edited by 273; 03-21-2017 at 01:43 PM.
Reason: Typo's.
some of the monitor settings are in the eye candy effects in KDE
you can set it so that a window or virtual desktop can be slid from one to a different monitor
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Could I, for example, run two fullscreen games at the same time?
I'm more worried about baing able to set programs to run full screen without any interference with the other screen.
This is an example xorg.conf file for a setup using an nVidia proprietary driver with a left monitor identified as DFP-0 and a right monitor identified as CRT-0.
Using server "Layout0", only the left monitor is used.
Using server "Layout1", only the right monitor is used.
Using server "Layout2", the left and right monitors are used as a single screen.
Using server "Layout3" (the default), the left and right monitors are used as a separate screens.
well, i am running kde fc 24 with an nvidia card and two monitors and while i have no gamed on it, i can watch two full screen vids, one on each screen. when i plugged the second in it treated it like an extended desktop but when i go full screen on one it does not interfere with the other.
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well, i am running kde fc 24 with an nvidia card and two monitors and while i have no gamed on it, i can watch two full screen vids, one on each screen. when i plugged the second in it treated it like an extended desktop but when i go full screen on one it does not interfere with the other.
Thanks. Are you able to have panels and task bar on both?
i can do panels and i can have the task bar but only on the clone option. i am not sure if that can play two different things on the clone option or not because i usually don't use that.
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