Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:10:15 -0800 (PST) From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/50145: KDE 3.1 not honoring XINERAMA Message-ID: <200303201910.h2KJAFPO072375@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To: Nik Clayton <nik@crf-consulting.co.uk>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/50145: KDE 3.1 not honoring XINERAMA
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:09:35 -0800
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:53:03PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
>
> >Number: 50145
> >Category: ports
> >Synopsis: KDE 3.1 not honoring XINERAMA
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: serious
> >Priority: medium
> >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
> >State: open
> >Quarter:
> >Keywords:
> >Date-Required:
> >Class: sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id: current-users
> >Arrival-Date: Thu Mar 20 11:00:25 PST 2003
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator: Nik Clayton
> >Release: FreeBSD 4.8-RC i386
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
> System: FreeBSD clan.nothing-going-on.org 4.8-RC FreeBSD 4.8-RC #1: Wed Mar 19 21:04:24 GMT 2003 nik@clan.nothing-going-on.org:/local/1/usr/src/sys/compile/CLAN i386
>
>
> KDE 3.1, built from the ports tree, last updated on Mar 15, 19:30 GMT.
>
> >Description:
>
> The KDE port doesn't seem to be honoring XINERAMA when it's built. When
> I built x11/kdebase3 I'm told:
>
> @${ECHO_MSG} "If you don't want to compile with Xinerama support,"
> @${ECHO_MSG} "hit Ctrl-C right now and use \"make WITHOUT_XINERAMA=yes\""
>
> since I did nothing at this point, XINERAMA support should be compiled in.
>
> However, the x11/kdelibs3 Makefile has this test the other way round, it's
> looking for WITH_XINERAMA to be defined.
>
> The practical upshot of this is that even though I have
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "Xinerama" "true"
> EndSection
>
> in my XF86Config file, KDE isn't using Xinerama on my multiple monitor
> setup. Starting the KDE Control Center, looking in the Desktop tree,
> and then the "Window Behaviour" dialog, the "Advanced" tab shows options
> for Xinerama support, but they're all grayed out and unselectable.
>
> This seems to be related to ports/48093, but I don't think the solution in
> that PR is quite right. I think it makes more sense just to reverse the
> sense of the test in kdelibs3/Makefile, so that it's in sync with kdebase3.
>
> >How-To-Repeat:
>
> Build KDE3 from ports, try and use Xinerama.
Known bug, thanks for reporting. We're working on it.
Regards,
--
wca
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