On Friday 02 April 2010 14:13:03 Aike J Sommer wrote: > Well.. A Screen is the logical area to which you can maximize a window > for example, or which has a panel at the bottom! > An output is the actual physical hardware / monitor... > > So, for each connector that appears when calling xrandr there will be > one Output created, some enabled, some disabled... On my netbook those > are "VGA" and "LVDS", on my notebook something like "VGA", "LVDS" and > "TMDS-1" and on my HTPC "VGA" and "TV-1"! > > How many Screens there are depends on your configuration: > - If you have only one enabled Output, you will have one Screen with the > same geometry > - If you have 2 or more overlapping Outputs, one Screen will be created > which spans all of those > - If you have multiple non-overlapping Outputs, one Screen will be > created per Output > > One of the ideas was to be able to configure even non-overlapping > Outputs to be combined in one Screen, but that is not implemented... > > Hope that helps!
Thanks, it cleared a lot of questions up. Will _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
