Holy desktops!!! Bumblebee and Optimus are now working

[Stephen Partington]

Well the only issue I am running into is with the weird sliding issue of
the one display. I am running 16.04 and really have not run into the other
issues.

And Wayland is being stubborn ad well.

On Jul 22, 2016 7:39 PM, "Michael Butash" <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> I bet you do - kde has some real bastard issues with multi-monitor I've
> been finding.
>
> If you're on 14.04, you're mostly hozed - they didn't fix kde remembering
> display setups until plasma 5.x.  This alone drove me into the 16.04
> adventure with plasma 5.
>
> I was actually just digging through their bugs when I saw this, there are
> a ton of issues with current releases in ubuntu and everything really,
> plasma 5.5 to current 5.7.1 all seem affected.
>
> Now with 16.04 and plasma 5.5 on here, it remembers where my monitors go,
> but about everything else is broken.  Someone decided to remove a
> particular null monitor feature in kde that destroys it's ability cope with
> displays disappearing as things toggle around with xrandr functions,
> causing kwin, plasma, and about every other aspect of kde to freak out.
> Now they seem to be trying to put it back, but so far everyone is still
> broken in 5.7.1.
>
> Sadly most of these issues relate I found in the kde trackers around these
> issues are a year or more old, and they don't seem great about actually
> fixing old/persistent problems.  Seems they just keep making new features
> without fixing the old ones, like monitor placement in plasma 4.
>
> Easy for them to say "just upgrade to 5", but not when it requires a
> distro release upgrade, and then finding it is even more broken is slightly
> infuriating.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 07/22/2016 09:07 AM, Stephen Partington wrote:
>
> Odd KDE multi-monitor behavior with Optimus.
>
> I have it working, and for the most part its great. But what i am getting
> now is some really strange behavior with Nvidia and Intel graphics.
>
> Everything comes up and renders beautifully. I can even arrange them and
> move things back and forth. But anytime i move to the Intel controlled
> monitor (in this case laptop display) it slides the Nvidia controlled
> screens off to the side (or up if i set it below).
>
> I have no idea where this behavior is controlled from and my google
> searching is coming up with nothing like it before. And while technically
> functional its kind of weird and not very helpful behavior.
>
>
>
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