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Kamex

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Saturday, May 26th 2007, 1:27am

Differing Kickers

Hey there.

I'm running KDE on Kubuntu. I have a laptop that will not run Linux, and I also had a desire to play my Windows games, so I'm running the system on a virtual machine.

The problem with doing this is that I do not have the use of my second monitor. In an effort to remedy the problem, I have created a VNC session that runs additional copies of kwin and kdesktop. I set this display to be full screen on my smaller monitor and my main display to full screen on my larger one. If I want to run an app on my second monitor, I launch the program with --display :1. This arrangement is rather crude, and prevents me from moving programs between windows, but I am overall happy with it.

My question is that I would like to have additional, different panels on the second monitor. To accomplish this, I want to start kicker with a different config file. I thought doing a bash script to temporarily move another file into place, but that would still cause it to work with the same file and the two kickers would overwrite on eachother's settings. I've learned enough about Linux and KDE to get by, but I'm no expert and this has escaped me. I realize that what I'm asking for may be impossible, but I thought I would at least ask and see if anyone has some suggestions on how I can accomplish this. Any ideas?