Running Kubuntu 9.10, with KDE 4.3.95.
Nvidia Quadro 570m with Nvidia driver 190.53.
I just got a laptop dock and an external monitor that I'm trying to get running. I've messed around with Twinview in the past a little, but it seems to be working very well now.
I've found a really nice tool called disper that will basically auto configure Twinview without having to click a dozen times in nvidia-settings. I can enable both monitors working with
and back to the laptop only with
Works really great except for one thing.
After I switch back to the single monitor setup, most apps that I open go to the second monitor (which is disabled). I can just barely see the window shadow on my laptop, but there's no way to drag the window onto my laptop monitor, so I can't access any apps.
I'm having some trouble figuring out how Twinview works. I thought that it would display Desktop 1 on the primary screen (laptop monitor) and Desktop 2 on the external monitor. However, this doesn't seem to be the case because I can't right click on the title and do To Desktop-->Desktop 2 (Well I can, but it won't send it to the other monitor).
1) What is Twinview?
2) I know that I can setup lots of custom window behaviors in System Settings. Is there some way that I can force applications to open on the primary monitor (again, it's not a Desktop 1 vs. 2 thing)?
3) Worst-case: is there some shortcut that I can use to get the windows back to the laptop monitor?
I hadn't tried Twinview in a while because it wasn't able to do compositing (and I want compositing on whenever it's plugged in) on both screens. However, either KDE SC 4.4.0 or the Nvidia driver (190.53) has made that possible!
Thanks for the replies.
Nvidia Quadro 570m with Nvidia driver 190.53.
I just got a laptop dock and an external monitor that I'm trying to get running. I've messed around with Twinview in the past a little, but it seems to be working very well now.
I've found a really nice tool called disper that will basically auto configure Twinview without having to click a dozen times in nvidia-settings. I can enable both monitors working with
Code:
disper -e
Code:
disper -s
After I switch back to the single monitor setup, most apps that I open go to the second monitor (which is disabled). I can just barely see the window shadow on my laptop, but there's no way to drag the window onto my laptop monitor, so I can't access any apps.
I'm having some trouble figuring out how Twinview works. I thought that it would display Desktop 1 on the primary screen (laptop monitor) and Desktop 2 on the external monitor. However, this doesn't seem to be the case because I can't right click on the title and do To Desktop-->Desktop 2 (Well I can, but it won't send it to the other monitor).
1) What is Twinview?
2) I know that I can setup lots of custom window behaviors in System Settings. Is there some way that I can force applications to open on the primary monitor (again, it's not a Desktop 1 vs. 2 thing)?
3) Worst-case: is there some shortcut that I can use to get the windows back to the laptop monitor?
I hadn't tried Twinview in a while because it wasn't able to do compositing (and I want compositing on whenever it's plugged in) on both screens. However, either KDE SC 4.4.0 or the Nvidia driver (190.53) has made that possible!
Thanks for the replies.
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