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Second Monitor disappeared in Kubuntu 22.10
I am currently having an issue with my second monior on Kubuntu. I don't know if this is relevant but its an ultrawide monitor (5120x1440). Everything was working well and fine up until this morning ...
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dual screen support for plasma desktop
I have 2 displays with differing resolutions, and have them mostly working on a Garuda Linux dr460nized version (KDE Plasma). My current xrandr configuration is:
[ 2 -eq $(xrandr |grep -c 'DP') ] &...
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Jitsi Meet screen sharing works not with a single monitor only with all monitors
I using KUbuntu its probably using Plasma that's using Wayland.
An Jitsi - Meet screen sharing here now allows not sharing a single monitor screen, because i using two. it shares only two.
For about a ...
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Any chance to display focus loss on maximized window in KDE?
I am using KDE on multiple monitors. This makes it possible to have several maximized windows (on different monitors). Unfortunately, KDE designers thought tha maximized window can be only one and ...
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Any chance to display KDE Task Switcher or all or only one attached monitors?
I am using comuter with multiple montiors. Any time I press Alt-Tab, task switcher appears on random monitor. While pressing alt tab it is impossible to understand, which window I am selecting. After ...
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Determine correct lastScreen values for panels in plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc?
I have a laptop that I plug into a docking station on a daily basis. And almost every time, I need to modify my plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc, then do a plasma restart kquitapp5 plasmashell &...
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Reset display defaults in KDE?
Bear with me, i'm a total Linux/KDE noob.
I recently set up my new install. Upon connecting my second monitor, it prompted me to choose between several display options. I choose "laptop only" by ...
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Thunderbolt 3 hotplug in linux freezes the UI
I have Lenovo Thinkpad T480s and Think Pad Thunderbolt 3 Dock connected via thunderbolt 3. The docking station has two external monitors connected via display ports. I have installed KDE neon. The ...
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KDE's maximise button does not fully maximise (dual monitor caused issue)
I'm using Debian Stable 9.4 with the default KDE installation and working with two monitors.
On one of them, the maximise button does not fully maximise the window. Instead it has some sort of fixed ...
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KDE desktop prefers its own display settings over xrandr?
I have a set up with three monitors for KDE Plasma (5.12). One is a HiDPI monitor which I have scaled at 2x, and I have forced the other two ("standard" resolution) monitors to use their native ...
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Why can't I get my GTX 970 to drive my monitors at 1080p on OpenSuse Leap 42.3?
I am trying to set up a workstation with OpenSuse Leap 42.3 and I have 3x Asus 1080p monitors that, for whatever reason, my GPU is not receiving EDIDs from on X Server start. I've been trying to get ...
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Unrelated software interaction disables external monitor and makes it undetectable by xrandr
I have a laptop running KDE Plasma 5 on Arch Linux which has problems with external monitors.
Sometimes I have to try multiple times to connect the HDMI cable before the monitor is detected. Then it ...
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KDE Plasma 5 taskbar dissappears on external monitors
I'm running Kubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.4.0-28-generic and Plasma 5.6.5
I am mostly docked with two external displays, and I use all three with the Laptop one as primary.
I have a customized taskbar ...
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KDE plasma partial screen after unplugging hdmi second screen
I have arch with KDE plasma on my laptop. Yesterday I tried a second vga screen using a hdmi-vga adaptor (my laptop has only hdmi entry).
Everything worked fine, I used the second screen as an ...
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Dynamic configuring multiple x-screens using RandR (xrandr) in Linux
I can use a external physical Dell monitor at work connecting it through VGA port to my ThinkPad laptop. I have Debian testing installed, along with KDE5.5 and i3wm. See detailed information below.
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KDE taskbar (Task Manager) only on VGA screen, not DVI screen
My Task Manager only shows up in the screen connected with VGA and clicking "Only show tasks from the current screen" in Task Manager Settings doesn't make the Task Manager bar appear on the second ...
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white hand mouse cursor displayed wrong
I work in Linux Fedora 19 - KDE: the PC is a Dell OptiPlex 7010, with an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz and an external graphics card (VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [...
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xorg.conf renders display larger than screen
Background
I am driving a 3-screen setup with 2 1080p screens one above the other and a flanking 1680x1050 in portrait.
Problem
On boot, the portrait screen is not rendered at the correct height. ...
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KDE and External Moniters
I have a Toshiba laptop that I am using with an external monitor. After jumping through many hoops to get this to work in the first place, I have a problem.
My previous configuration was as follows:
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Can't get my monitor setup to stick with PCLinux OS
I'm using PCLinuxOS, which uses the KDE windows manager. I have to reconfigure my dual monitors every time I restart my system. I used the configuration utility to change the enable the second monitor ...
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Cannot set up dual monitors correctly in Fedora15 with KDE
I have 2 monitors:
24" LCD connected via DVI(primary)
19" LCD connected via VGA(secondary)
Everytime Fedora starts the second display is always set to clone the first one and they both run at ...
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Task switcher for linux in multiple monitors?
Anyone know of something like this for linux?
http://www.actualtools.com/multiplemonitors/features/multi_monitor_task_switcher/
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Kwin window over both monitors
How can I make a window span over both monitors? I have the monitors configured using the KDE monitor setting tool. I need specifically full-screen (for presentation purposes) or at least a maximized ...
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Multiple monitor specific task bar KDE (linux ultramon alt)
I know in KDE you can add multiple panels and then add widgets to those panels. But is there a way to get open windows to only display in the taskbar in the monitor that they're open in? Essentially ...
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Gnome can do multi-monitors, KDE can't
I have both Gnome and KDE installed on my system. In Gnome I am able to split my desktop across my two monitors. When I go into KDE the monitors are cloned, and when I try to go into the multi-monitor ...
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help with xorg.conf: xrandr on one of two widescreen monitors; rhel5, kde, ATI Radeon X1300
Can anyone help with me configure my dual-screen monitors for rotation?
I have xrandr 1.1. Have tried various approaches, nothing takes. I can't even get the xrandr options to show up in KDE's ...
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Why is my extended desktop configuration being reset after a reboot with Kubuntu 10.04?
I'm running Kubuntu 10.04 x64 on a Lenovo ThinkPad R500, with an external monitor attached.
If I configure extended desktop, everything works fine. The settings look like this:
After a reboot, these ...
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