How does KDE determine display number

Bill Marcum marcumbill at bellsouth.net
Wed Aug 5 07:07:27 UTC 2009


On 2009-07-28, pkaplan1 at comcast.net <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> I have a multiple monitor setup using Intel on board graphics (4500MHD). 
>
> With the following xorg.conf I have the external monitor disply the 
> right half of a large virtual desktop. (Don't ask why I need two 
> "Monitor" sections, since either one results in overlapping 
> displays.)
>
> For some reason KDE 4.3 has decided to call the internal monitor 
> (VGA) display 2 and the external monitor (LVGA) display 1. In earlier 
> iterations of kde, this resulted in some ocaisionally eratic behavior 
> which disappeared when I wiped out ~/.kde and restored display 1 to 
> the internal monitor.
>
Could it be the order in which the Monitor sections are listed in 
xorg.conf?






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