Hello mythTV users, I'd greatly appreciate if anyone can give me a hint on this topic I am still unable to solve.
The short version of the question would be, how can I configure two different window managers to run under the same X server, one on each display of a dual-head configuration? I'll also venture a longer explanation at the risk of boring to death potential helping hands. I am a very happy mythTV user, trying to give the last configuration touches to my setup. I am running Fedora Core 2 on a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz. I this single PC which is used both as a mythTV backend/frontend and also as a personal workstation for e-mail, music, word processing, etc. The PC has two video cards. One is connected to a PC Monitor, where I run my KDE session and the other video card is connected through the tv-out to two TV sets in different rooms. There is an remote control receiver next to each TV so I can watch a recorded show in the bedroom while my wife is reading e-mail in the main console. That is the concept at least. After I got my second (tv-out) video card, I worked with my xorg.conf and drivers until I got it to work as a second display. With that working, I could now start applications to show on the TV using DISPLAY=:0.1. That is how I start mythfrontend now. /etc/X11/xorg.conf: ... Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0 Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection ... I didn't enable Xinerama because I don't really want to go from the main screen to the TV screen or back. In reality, I want them to be separate independent displays. The problem I have using this setup is that when KDE starts it opens a KWin, desktop and panel in the second display as well as the first one: # ps -ef | grep kdeinit ... myuser 10586 10561 0 17:52 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: kwin -session 117f00000... -display :0.1 vero 10587 10561 0 17:52 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: kwin -session 117f00000... -display :0.0 ... This is no problem at first, but as soon as someone sits on the PC console and starts using any application, mythfrontend loses the focus and goes to the background, with which: a) The KDE panel pops on top of mythfrontend, covering part of the bottom of the TV scree n b) I can no longer work with mythfrontend popup menus. Whenever one pups up, None of the options have the focus and thus I cannot navigate them or choose any option. I can only select "Exit" from my remote and go to the previous screen. This is particularly unconfortable because I cannot erase recordings after watching them. I've been circling around trying to get this right for several weeks, looking at information such as KDE admin manuals, backstreet-ruby how-tos and some other stuff. I no longer know where to head now, so I'd greatly appreciate any advice on how to get around this. So some of my questions would be, how can I tell KDE NOT to start on display :0.1 and leave that display alone so I use only mythfrontend without any window manager? Will mythfrontend popups work without a window manager? Else, how can I specify a separate window manager on each display? Maybe then I could start fwvm or some simple display manager on the second display (something that doesn't have a panel and that doesn't have window focus linked with the first desktop)? Should I change my strategy here and configure two separate X servers instead of only one with the two screens? Any pointer to how-tos or documentation on doing so? Even though I want just independent screens, is still Xinerama my answer? A little additional information, in case it is needed to answer some of the avobe: - I'm using mythfrontend with native lirc support instead of irxevent. - My login manager is kdm Thanks in advance for any help and also for the help already provided as part of the huge amounts of information on the list archives.
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