Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On Sun, 2024-03-03 at 21:20 +, Michael wrote: > Pipewire is the new sound server for KDE.  Take a look here in case > yours > needs some tweaking: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PipeWire > > I run on my main desktop with USE="-pulseaudio", but if you have any > applications which need

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

Hi, Daniel Frey writes: > I've been gone for a few days as I was rebuilding my main PC. > > I thought I'd provide an update: it was xorg-server causing all the issues. > > I figured as I had to redo everything anyway to switch to systemd and wayland > as that's what the bigger DE's tend to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 3 March 2024 19:31:30 GMT Dale wrote: >> >> Since my last post, I did my weekly updates. During that, I log out, >> switch to boot runlevel, restart anything that checkrestart says needs >> it, then back to default runlevel and log back in. With the config file >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

Daniel Frey wrote: > On 3/3/24 13:57, Dale wrote: >> I think most is in the .config directory now.  I have to say tho, I used >> to zap that thing about once a year, sometimes two, to correct some >> things that were weird but couldn't fix otherwise.  I think the devs try >> to make things forward

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On 3/3/24 13:57, Dale wrote: I think most is in the .config directory now.  I have to say tho, I used to zap that thing about once a year, sometimes two, to correct some things that were weird but couldn't fix otherwise.  I think the devs try to make things forward compatible but no one is

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

Daniel Frey wrote: > On 3/3/24 11:31, Dale wrote: >> Since my last post, I did my weekly updates.  During that, I log out, >> switch to boot runlevel, restart anything that checkrestart says needs >> it, then back to default runlevel and log back in.  With the config file >> change, my monitors

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On Sunday, 3 March 2024 19:31:30 GMT Dale wrote: > Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 2/29/24 03:27, Dale wrote: > >> To provide a little more info on how this works. This is how I did > >> it. It helps a LOT to have tab completion with this. It will fill > >> in a lot of the info and when unsure, list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On 3/3/24 11:31, Dale wrote: Since my last post, I did my weekly updates.  During that, I log out, switch to boot runlevel, restart anything that checkrestart says needs it, then back to default runlevel and log back in.  With the config file change, my monitors came up just like they should.  I

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

Daniel Frey wrote: > On 2/29/24 03:27, Dale wrote: >> To provide a little more info on how this works.  This is how I did >> it.  It helps a LOT to have tab completion with this.  It will fill >> in a lot of the info and when unsure, list the available options. >> First, I had to install the

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On 2/29/24 03:27, Dale wrote: To provide a little more info on how this works.  This is how I did it. It helps a LOT to have tab completion with this.  It will fill in a lot of the info and when unsure, list the available options. First, I had to install the package xrandr.  My first problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 04:23:37PM -0600, Dale wrote: > > I have two questions.  Does a upgrade change it back to defaults?  If > so, there may be a file in /etc somewhere that is more permanent.  If > not, cool.  :-)  No, it's never been overwritten, so far... > How did you get the info to

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 3:24 PM Dale > wrote: > > > > Paul B. Henson wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:53:37PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > > >> After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone > have any > > >> idea why KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 3:24 PM Dale wrote: > > Paul B. Henson wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:53:37PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any > >> idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? > > . I ended up adding

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:53:37PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: >> After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any >> idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? > . I ended up adding this to /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup: > > xrandr

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:53:37PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any > idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? . I ended up adding this to /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup: xrandr --output DVI-D-0 --primary --output

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On 2/25/24 10:17, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 10:35 AM Daniel Frey > wrote: > I probably should have added more details... I do have an nvidia card - > RTX 3070Ti. Monitors use 2x DP ports and 1x HDMI port. > > KDE behaves very strangely. Like, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 10:35 AM Daniel Frey wrote: > I probably should have added more details... I do have an nvidia card - > RTX 3070Ti. Monitors use 2x DP ports and 1x HDMI port. > > KDE behaves very strangely. Like, it crashes often when using multiple > monitors and I've never been able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On Sunday, 25 February 2024 17:36:25 GMT Daniel Frey wrote: > On 2/25/24 01:01, Michael wrote: > > I used to experience the same when using Xorg with AMD-Radeon graphics > > instead of Nvidia, but since I moved to Wayland the problem of losing > > screen settings has gone. One monitor is using

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On 2/25/24 01:01, Michael wrote: I used to experience the same when using Xorg with AMD-Radeon graphics instead of Nvidia, but since I moved to Wayland the problem of losing screen settings has gone. One monitor is using the DVI port of the card and the other HDMI. It should be worth trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On 2/24/24 21:52, Dale wrote: I have two monitors too, sort of.  One monitor is for computer stuff, checking email, surfing the net etc etc etc.  The other monitor I use to watch TV with.  The output from the video card second output goes to a splitter so I can have the same video in both my

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 25 February 2024 05:52:20 GMT Dale wrote: >> Daniel Frey wrote: >>> After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have >>> any idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? >>> >>> All I'm trying to do is get it to remember *where* my monitors

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On Sunday, February 25, 2024 3:53:37 P.M. AEDT Daniel Frey wrote: > After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any > idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? > > All I'm trying to do is get it to remember *where* my monitors are (I > have two side-by-side and

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On Sunday, 25 February 2024 05:52:20 GMT Dale wrote: > Daniel Frey wrote: > > After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have > > any idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? > > > > All I'm trying to do is get it to remember *where* my monitors are (I > > have

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

Daniel Frey wrote: > After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have > any idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? > > All I'm trying to do is get it to remember *where* my monitors are (I > have two side-by-side and one above the right monitor.) I go into >

[gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? All I'm trying to do is get it to remember *where* my monitors are (I have two side-by-side and one above the right monitor.) I go into System Settings, set it up and