On 12/29/2016 09:46 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Hi all, > I have upgraded my old core2 to an i7 on a x58 gigabyte MB. Lots > faster .... but I am still using my older nvidia card (GF119 [GeForce GT > 610] Nouveau driver), storage and original gentoo install. > > The problem is that I have two monitors - a 1920x1080 on DVI and a > 1280x1050 on vga. On boot up until logging into the xfce desktop, the > 1280x1050 resolution dominates. I have changed the boot through to end > of the initrd level using grub, and I can overide the X Windowes desktop > using xrandr. > > Whats left after logging in is an invisible bounding box of 1280x1050 on > the desktop that I cant move icons out of, and the console on the > 1920x1080 monitor is a 1280x1050 window on the 1920x1080 sized screen :( > > The strange thing is that this all worked perfectly on the old hardware > (basicly just a motherboard/memory/powersupply swap with the same > videocard and gentoo system) > > Is anyone able to offer suggestions? > > BillK > > I'm not sure if XFCE needs this, but do you have the 'xinerama' USE flag enabled? I know Fluxbox needs it to handle multi-monitor. That might be the missing piece of the puzzle.
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