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I've gotten Xdmx to work with KDE, sort of. KDE doesn't seem to see it as an xinerama setup, maximizing windows stretches them over both screens and so forth. The task bar does remain just on the first monitor however.

But I can handle those issues - I can just resize my windows and move them, etc. However, the text in the menus in various KDE apps seem to vanish, making them unusable after a time.

Can KDE play nice with Xdmx? Does KDE have xinerama-aware abilities, if so, how do I enable them and if I do, will it see Xdmx as a true xinerama setup and act as such? Is there a way to shoot a window to a screen/monitor, similar to how one can already shoot an app to a virtual desktop?

I need to revise my post - it seems that when last tried it, I launched one of the back-end X servers with the +xinerama option and this caused it to zoom apps to fullscreen across both monitors.

I tried it again, correctly this time, and it works as expected. Each app zooms to fullscreen on the monitor on which it resided, which is a very good and sane method I think.

I still have issues with both text in the top-menus and icons as well vanishing for long periods. Sometimes they come back, but I don't know any refresh trick. Besides this problem, xdmx is actually viable with KDE.

Most of what I read suggests using GNOME to solve issues - I'd much rather use it with KDE. The xineramascreen option that mplayer has works as expected - it seems that xdmx is seen to mplayer as the "real deal". The lack of documentation about this is frustrating - certainly KDE, the major gui on linux boxen, would mention something somewhere about using xdmx...