With dual monitors, windows always open on 2nd monitor, and audio issu

Schala · 2021-10-17 17:26:46

So I reinstalled Arch Linux for the first time in 5 years, and the first time successfully with UEFI (yay). I had several issues but managed to fix most of them, and it's now down to two minor but still annoying issues after I put the KDE desktop on it:

- Initially, sound wasn't working at all. I have pulseaudio-alsa installed. After some fiddling with the plasma-pa system settings panel, I got sound to work. However, whenever I restart, or my display wakes from sleep, it's muted again. I got it to work by running `pulseaudio -k` and again fidgeting with audio in plasma-pa, but of course, having to do that every time is very annoying.

- I also got my two-monitor setup to work after installing kscreen and setting it up with sddm. However, despite setting my right monitor as my primary, every window that opens appears on my left monitor and I have to drag it over every time. I'm not sure if there's a setting I'm missing that needs to be set. You'd think setting my right monitor as primary would do it, but apparently not.

So yeah, small issues but they're irritating regardless, and I appreciate the help. Glad to be back in this community!

V1del · 2021-10-17 21:09:21

Normal windows should appear where your cursor is. Define "all windows". E.g. chrome is particularly adamant about keeping it's own window position. You might also want to disable applications from remembering their window size/position in the KWin Windowsettings to make KWin the handling process.

As for the sound issues "sound fidgeting" is not really a useful problem description, what happens exactly and what exactly are you fidgeting. If you are using HDMI output then it's indeed normal that your outputs disappear, but they should normally be relevantly restored, presuming no other application grabs the sound device before pulse.

To get some useful information post

pacmd list-cards
pacmd list-sinks
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

during the broken and the working setup.

Also pick one topic per thread, decide which you want to handle here and open a new thread for the other problem.

Schala · 2021-10-17 21:14:55

Well, since making this post, I've found that Chrome sometimes shows up on the correct screen. However, I'm observing windows from processes like Dolphin and Discord to be popping up on my secondary monitor. I guess I misworded it, but yeah thanks for the suggestion with disabling windows remembering size/position. I'll give that a try soon. I'm having to replace the cooler so it won't be for about a week.

Thanks again Videl. I'll keep this in mind after I change the cooler.

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#1 2021-10-17 17:26:46

With dual monitors, windows always open on 2nd monitor, and audio issu

#2 2021-10-17 21:09:21

Re: With dual monitors, windows always open on 2nd monitor, and audio issu

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Re: With dual monitors, windows always open on 2nd monitor, and audio issu

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