I get logged out of my desktop environment when using second screen

Abraxasu · 2021-07-15 08:14:13

Yesterday after rebooting my laptop I found that any time I opened an internet browser or graphically intensive application on my external monitor it would immediately log me out of my desktop environment and kill all running applications.

I can still run terminal emulators, file explorers and the like, but videos, code editors, and browsers when opened on my external monitor immediately log me out. Even if I move an application running on my laptop screen to the second screen it will then log me out.

I thought it might be to do with nvidia drivers and a recent system upgrade, so I tried rolling back the kernel and nvidia drivers to an earlier version but that has not worked.

Any advice would be mightily appreciated.

ugjka · 2021-07-15 08:43:16

How about you share some specifics

schard · 2021-07-15 08:55:39

We had somebody with similar issues in the German forum [1].
Are you by any chance using the proprietary Nvidia driver?
If so, check your journal for XServer crashes and consider using nouveau until Nvidia fixes the issue.

[1] https://bbs.archlinux.de/viewtopic.php?id=34073

Abraxasu · 2021-07-15 08:59:55

I'm not really sure which specifics would be helpful.

My desktop environment is i3wm.

I was using the latest packages for archlinux-lts and the linux kernel as well as the latest nvidia drivers. I then downgraded them to a set of drivers from a few months ago based on this forum thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=265563 which ended up not doing much.

I am now in the process of trying to revert my packages back to an archived version from a month ago, but considering that downgrading those specific packages didn't make a difference I think it's unlikely to make much of a difference.

What I found strange was that my system started off crashing due to using too much RAM, then when I restarted it the problem began. I'm not sure if that was due to me having run system upgrades before that or if it was due to the crash itself.

Abraxasu · 2021-07-15 09:06:45

"Are you by any chance using the proprietary Nvidia driver?
If so, check your journal for XServer crashes and consider using nouveau until Nvidia fixes the issue."

Yeah I am using the Nvidia driver. I will give this a try and report back. Thanks!

Last edited by Abraxasu (2021-07-15 09:07:07)

V1del · 2021-07-15 10:16:58

If using nouveau isn't possible you can also downgrade the xorg-server(-common) packages to 1.20.11

seth · 2021-07-15 13:52:57

We have this, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=267824

Abraxasu · 2021-07-16 08:08:15

For now I seem to have solved the problem by temporarily downgrading xorg-server and xorg-server-common to version 1.20.11. Thanks for the help everyone!

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#1 2021-07-15 08:14:13

I get logged out of my desktop environment when using second screen

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