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Help a n00b with his two monitors Thread last updated on 2003-11-08 07:35:56

Posted by member 42676 on 2003-06-17 06:43:53

Hi guys. I'm new to litestep, and already I'm having trouble. It runs great on my single monitor system, but on this dual monitor rig it causes problems. I've had a quick flick through the forums but most of it I didn't understand, lol.

Anyway, I have a primary 19" @ 1024x768 and a secondary 14" @ 800x600 with the secondary to the left of the primary. This is being run on a dual head Radeon 9000.

My problem is, whenever a theme loads, be it simplicity, glaze or cleandesk (these are the ones I've tried) it doesn't all load. It tries to load it on the primary monitor, but bits of it disappear, IE there are gaps in the taskbar. This makes litestep next to useless.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Cheers,
Unts.

Posted by member 1783 on 2003-06-17 08:07:09 link

you should have your primary monitor on the left. that would solve the most of your problems.

Posted by member 1316 on 2003-06-17 13:59:06 link

well, those themes aren't really configured for dual monitored systems. you can try switching to RabidVWM (which is the only VWM I know for certain supports dual-monitors), and seeing if that helps.

Posted by member 2112 on 2003-06-17 18:55:15 link

Also try jdesk for your desktop module.

And search this forum for other tips and tricks. There have been plenty of posts regarding multi-monitor systems.

Posted by member 1783 on 2003-06-18 08:54:36 link

glaze is very designed for multi-monitor systems, i still guess that your problem is the unusual monitor settings.

Posted by member 39367 on 2003-06-18 09:39:33 link

Updating litestep from the installer build might help.

Posted by member 42676 on 2003-06-18 10:57:57 link

It's OK saying my primary monitor should be on the left, but I don't want it like that.

I might fiddle around some more when I get a chance.

Posted by member 2112 on 2003-06-18 17:52:02 link

Glaze was never tested with vertically positioned monitors. RabidCow pointed out that the miniview was flawed for this configuration. I'm not sure what unwanted effects it might have. I'll see if I can work in some support for the next version.

Posted by member 1783 on 2003-06-19 06:55:07 link

u have to change the orientation of the coordinates. good luck ;)

Posted by member 39367 on 2003-06-19 10:09:42 link

That sounds fun, i couldnt even move my taskbar much less orientate my whole theme.

Posted by member 80837 on 2003-11-08 07:35:56 link

having a similar problem here... finding very little help on these boards :(

could take me the best part of a day to figure all this out..

Is there a prefferable multi-monitor mangement program (such as UltraMon) that works well with LiteStep? or should i just forget that all together and let litestep do it all itself?