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My last post to the planet is quite some time back and unfortunately i havent found the time i would have liked to work on multihead in KDE! I have tried to chase down and close a bug here and there, but have not done anything noteworthy!

Today i just wanna tell you about a tiny app i wrote. I have been using this for a few months now and cant live without it! ;-) So i figured others might enjoy it, too.

Multihead in KDE 4.2.2

Posted on April 7th, 2009
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Hello Planet!!

If everything goes well, this should be my first post, that appears on planet kde! :-) I've started hacking on kde for last years edition of gsoc and have since tried to get multihead better supported.
In this post i wanna talk about what works and what's still missing, hope you enjoy!! ;-)

What do i mean when i say multihead??

To prevent confusion: i mean xrandr/xinerama/mergedfb-style setups, not separate x-displays on different monitors! I dont think there is anybody actively working on the latter in kde 4...

RPM hanging for no (apprent) reason??

Posted on March 3rd, 2009
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Just a little tip in case there is anybody out there with the same problem...
:-)

This morning i wanted to install some updates with 'zypper up'. That usually works without any problems!
But... Today it would go up to 100% installing the first package and then just hang forever. It didn't use any CPU, so it took me a while to even notice! Some investigation showed it was the rpm process not doing anything that zypper waited for.
rpm --rebuilddb didn't help, neither did removing zypper's cache...