I have four virtual desktops, and I'm using two monitors with Nvidia Twinview -- i.e. the desktop stretches across both physical monitors. By and large, KDE 4.3 seems perfectly aware of this, and adapts well.
But when I "Configure Plasma" and activate "Different activities", I'm plunged into creeping chaos. It immediately drops more desktops into the zoomed-out view than I can use, and generally won't let me delete the ones I don't want. I suppose there might be a reason behind that, but I don't know which.
I don't understand the "pairing", either. Big = wallpapers first set on the left monitor (higher res), small = wallpapers first set on the right monitor (lower res) -- fine, but their arrangement in the "zoomed out" view seems rather random: http://imagebin.ca/view/MeYOtJ.html
And sometimes I just can't seem to manage to get some prior combination of left/right back, losing lovingly hand-crafted complementary widget configurations. I irregularly (but often) arrive "in between" wallpapers (or desktops), with the plasma squirt (or cashew) conveniently outside the displayed area: http://imagebin.ca/view/fn-BLj.html
Or I get wallpapers that won't scale to fit the monitor they've (mistakenly?) landed on, or not using the scaling method I'd prefer.
And then there're the plasma toolbars and menus. Something's just altogther confused there: http://imagebin.ca/view/vlYGng.html and http://imagebin.ca/view/360SNv6f.html
I wish I could find the pattern behind all this, but everything from zooming out to dragging the zoomed-out view to deleting a desktop to zooming further out or in again takes subjective ages; dragging is especially frustrating: sort of like trying to play a game 0.18 fps. So it's hard to experiment with this.
The benefits to this whole approach haven't really become clear to me so far. Fortunately, I can just switch desktops the usual way, configure them in place, and keep a respectful distance from the "Zoom out" function.
Just wondering if it's just me. There must be somebody here using a dualhead configuration?
But when I "Configure Plasma" and activate "Different activities", I'm plunged into creeping chaos. It immediately drops more desktops into the zoomed-out view than I can use, and generally won't let me delete the ones I don't want. I suppose there might be a reason behind that, but I don't know which.
I don't understand the "pairing", either. Big = wallpapers first set on the left monitor (higher res), small = wallpapers first set on the right monitor (lower res) -- fine, but their arrangement in the "zoomed out" view seems rather random: http://imagebin.ca/view/MeYOtJ.html
And sometimes I just can't seem to manage to get some prior combination of left/right back, losing lovingly hand-crafted complementary widget configurations. I irregularly (but often) arrive "in between" wallpapers (or desktops), with the plasma squirt (or cashew) conveniently outside the displayed area: http://imagebin.ca/view/fn-BLj.html
Or I get wallpapers that won't scale to fit the monitor they've (mistakenly?) landed on, or not using the scaling method I'd prefer.
And then there're the plasma toolbars and menus. Something's just altogther confused there: http://imagebin.ca/view/vlYGng.html and http://imagebin.ca/view/360SNv6f.html
I wish I could find the pattern behind all this, but everything from zooming out to dragging the zoomed-out view to deleting a desktop to zooming further out or in again takes subjective ages; dragging is especially frustrating: sort of like trying to play a game 0.18 fps. So it's hard to experiment with this.
The benefits to this whole approach haven't really become clear to me so far. Fortunately, I can just switch desktops the usual way, configure them in place, and keep a respectful distance from the "Zoom out" function.
Just wondering if it's just me. There must be somebody here using a dualhead configuration?
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