Xinerama like behavior with xrandr

[Stephane Marchesin]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 14:30, Daniel Gultsch <daniel at gultsch.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've finaly decided to get myself a new external Monitor for my
> Thinkpad. I want to use it like xinerame does. (different resolutions
> for internal and external and different screens and apps like the kicker
> under kde going only over one of the monitors. and when I maximize one
> window I only want to have it on one of the screen) But Xinerama is
> deprecated now and I want to use xrandr. xrandr in clone mode works
> just fine, but when i use left-of or below I have ONE big screen with
> windows going along both of them.
> How can I use xrandr in a xinerama like enviroment?
>

Short term, use fakexinerama:
http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/fakexinerama/

Long term, fix KDE.

Stephane