On Tuesday 04 February 2014 14:33:36 you wrote: > aha! > > turns out the solution is not in krandr but in the monitor kde > settings. wherein one may drag one monitor atop the other, establish > which is the primary, and so on. now, according to krandr, i am > running a monitor at 1920x2280. which is pretty cool, though the moon > on my desktop is now enormous and cut in two. but, hey, if that's the > worst that ever happens . . . > > which i report in case it's of use to anybody else. i personally > think it is tremendously cool. I have side by side moitors, two seoate scrrens, i.e. two backgrounds two sepate application spaces. Here is the part that determines screen topology, I use an xorg.conf file and I use the nvidia tool towrite it, wich yucan modify if needed..left of right etc. Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0" Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Device1" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0" Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1920x1080 +0+0; CRT: 1280x1024 +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection -- Peace, Greg