KDE two monitors -> sometimes it moves the position of one

aligator · 2016-02-16 19:47:15

hi

sometimes when I login into my fresh installed KDE, it moves the view of my seccond monitor above my first one (--> I get a cloned view, same picture on both)
bevore login it is normal (I use sddm).
I have no idea why this happens.

Any idea?

Last edited by aligator (2016-02-16 19:47:40)

Awebb · 2016-02-16 20:02:31

Please specify, how you configure your screen setups. In KDE? in /etc/xorg.conf.d/?

aligator · 2016-02-16 20:15:00

xorg.conf
I have NVIDIA with the proprietary driver.

Awebb · 2016-02-16 20:20:57

Plasma has its own randr implementation and does all kinds of checks and tries to guess your setup. We need more data. Post your xorg.conf. Post plasma logs. Explain, why you use the xorg.conf, instead of setting up a minimal xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia and let Plasma do the rest.

aligator · 2016-02-16 20:44:15

I use xorg.conf because I had some problems with my monitors some time ago, and managed to get it working. I copy this config since then, every time I reinstall linux, because it just works.
here it is:
https://bpaste.net/show/e7dacfe9309f

How can I get the plasma logs, when it happens next time?

jameshy · 2016-02-18 16:52:33

I had the same problem, I think it's caused by kscreen.

pacman -R kscreen

Fixed it for me.

Last edited by jameshy (2016-02-19 17:23:32)

Zaku140 · 2016-02-20 06:08:12

I believe you can fix this by going to the start menu -> system settings -> Display and Monitor and check your settings from there.

Buddlespit · 2016-02-21 05:43:00

Zaku140 wrote:

I believe you can fix this by going to the start menu -> system settings -> Display and Monitor and check your settings from there.

That has to be done at every boot. Like jameshy, I removed kscreen even tho the issue is caused by qtgraphicaleffects. I don't know if it's ever been fixed, I use nvidia-settings now.

jameshy · 2016-02-21 11:41:16

Using nvidia-settings my monitor positions are always preserved (it adds "metamodes" option in xorg.conf)

However sometimes the plasma panel starts on the wrong monitor. I have to edit ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc, setting lastScreen=0, then restart plasmashell.

Last edited by jameshy (2016-02-21 11:41:41)

Awebb · 2016-02-21 12:15:15

I'd write a minimal 20-nvidia.conf and set everything up in KDE.

daniel_alomar · 2016-02-22 18:34:05

Hi,

I have a Radeon and I had the same problems with KDE. Then I removed kscreen (I had to remove plasma-meta before) and now I do not loose the configuration after restart. Kscreen was the problem. I wonder if kscreen-git has not that problem. This is my 10-monitor.conf file:

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier "DVI-0"
  Modeline "1440x900_60.00"  106.50  1440 1528 1672 1904  900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync
  Option "LeftOf" "DVI-1"
  Option "DPMS" "True"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
  Identifier "DVI-1"
  Modeline "1920x1080_60.00"  148.50  1920 2008 2052 2200  1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsync
  Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080_60.00"
  Option "RightOf" "DVI-0"
  Option "DPMS" "True"
  Option "Primary" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
  Identifier "Screen0"
  Device "Radeon"
  Monitor "DVI-0"
  DefaultDepth 24
EndSection
Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen1"
    Device         "Radeon"
    Monitor        "DVI-1"
    DefaultDepth   24
EndSection

And my 20-radeon.conf

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf 
Section "Device"
        Identifier "Radeon"
        Driver "radeon"
EndSection

Regards

Arch Linux

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