Unable to move windows from primary monitor to secondary one

jamess7995 · 2021-12-14 20:17:31

Hey all, I wish I knew what logs to give you but if you ask you will receive. I kept thinking this was a cable issue but it does seem to be a software based issue, either arch or KDE. I'm running nvidia hardware with un used intel integrated graphics. I have two monitors and after an update but I'm not sure which one cause I went a couple days without using the second monitor, I can now no longer put windows there, without them snapping to the main monitor. Interesting if I position the secondary monitor above or below instead of left / right, window border disappear and kwin keeps crashing and I wouldn't want top/bottom alignment anyway.
Here's a video of this behavior , xorg conf, xrandr -q, /etc/X11/xorg.conf

V1del · 2021-12-14 20:33:11

This config just reads weird and you are allocating multiple xorg screens (which aren't your physical monitors) rather than distinct monitor section which I'm assuming to be normal to get into this behaviour. Did you always have this config like that? What's the role of the second GPU? Does it have any? Your monitors appear to be only attached to the 1050Ti. For a quick test I suggest you remove that config entirely and check behaviour with the normal autodetection.

jamess7995 · 2021-12-14 20:41:36

I was messing around a lot the past month and a half and guides would suggest this command that was something nvdidia-xconfig to autogenerate the config file. To follow your advice are you suggesting something "mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup", then what, "systemctl restart sddm" and see what the new behavior is? I also have been using the 2070 for a windows VM that I haven't had time to re setup but will soon

V1del · 2021-12-14 21:09:04

That's what I'm suggesting yes. Just running nvidia-xconfig for the sake of running nvidia-xconfig often leads to issues.

jamess7995 · 2021-12-14 21:11:39

V1del wrote:

This config just reads weird and you are allocating multiple xorg screens (which aren't your physical monitors) rather than distinct monitor section which I'm assuming to be normal to get into this behaviour. Did you always have this config like that? What's the role of the second GPU? Does it have any? Your monitors appear to be only attached to the 1050Ti. For a quick test I suggest you remove that config entirely and check behaviour with the normal autodetection.

removing that xorg file fixed it, so what's now running the setup, just some KDE System Settings file, do I need to worry about that at this point, am I even still using xorg

seth · 2021-12-14 22:35:34

X11 server configurations are usually not required, if you want to augment specific device or screen options, use config drop-ins, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#Using_.conf_files
The invocation of X11 is not determined by the presence of a config file, you canr check the session type w/ "echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE" or "xrandr -q" (if it's wayland, you'll see that in the output names of the latter)

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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#1 2021-12-14 20:17:31

Unable to move windows from primary monitor to secondary one

#2 2021-12-14 20:33:11

Re: Unable to move windows from primary monitor to secondary one

#3 2021-12-14 20:41:36

Re: Unable to move windows from primary monitor to secondary one

#4 2021-12-14 21:09:04

Re: Unable to move windows from primary monitor to secondary one

#5 2021-12-14 21:11:39

Re: Unable to move windows from primary monitor to secondary one

#6 2021-12-14 22:35:34

Re: Unable to move windows from primary monitor to secondary one

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