Comments on: Xubuntu 12.04: Some Steps Forward, Some Steps Back

By: Dual Monitors: Dual-Link DVI + HDMI | The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:58:46 +0000

[...] only that, but the version of xsetwacom in Xubuntu 12.10 once again respects the MapToOutput "HEAD-0" option that restricts the stylus to the U2711 monitor. That means I can’t put the GIMP toolbars and [...]

By: Xubuntu 12.04: Forcing Monitor DPI Settings « The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:09:58 +0000

[...] For whatever reason, X no longer automagically determines the dots/inch value for the right-hand portrait monitor [...]

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:59:13 +0000

Much, much better than KDE used to be, anyway. :-)

Well, if one weren't forced to manually configure a two-monitor setup every time KDE starts up, I'd give it a try. They still seem to value eye candy over simple functionality; don't any KDE developers have a dual-monitor configuration? A quick XFCE Mint installation demonstrated that there's no reason to use Mint if you're not using Cinnamon / whatever; their rewritten display manager (MDM) doesn't use upstart, so I couldn't figure out how to hold it back until the NFS mounts finish happening.

X setup present you with :0.0 and :0.1

That's it: windows on the two monitors operate independently, but with unified keyboard / mouse input. I used to limit the Wacom tablet to the left-hand portrait display, but that option has been improved out of existence, which accounts for the unusable chunk of the tablet I mentioned.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:41:36 +0000

The Unity mess prompted me to try Kubuntu, which wasn’t half bad. Then fiddling with all that revealed that the KDE version in the repos wasn’t terribly current, so I went to Fedora 17 and an alternative repository to install KDE 4.9. And 4.9, so far, seems quite decent. Much, much better than KDE used to be, anyway. :-)

I agree, though… sometimes this stuff makes me miss Motif/mwm/CDE. CDE on modern hardware ought to be infinitely fast.

This makes me wonder: does your X setup present you with :0.0 and :0.1, or have you combined them into one large (and geometrically interesting) :0.0? Or does this mean you’ve gone seriously old skule and implemented :0.0 and :1.0 as entirely separate sessions with separate xdm (or equivalent) logins? Because that would be (a) superbly hackish and (b) requiring two keyboards, too.