KScreen Sees Its First Alpha Release

Posted by Michael Larabel on January 27, 2013

KScreen, the new way of managing monitors/outputs on Linux when running the KDE Plasma desktop, saw its first alpha release this weekend.

The KScreen 0.1 Alpha is made up of a System Settings module for managing screens and then the KDED module for remembering and storing display configurations.

The first alpha release of KScreen is covered in this developer's blog post. Below are two videos showing off KScreen in action.


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