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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