From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F8FA158041 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2024 11:29:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4769BE29F0; Sun, 25 Feb 2024 11:29:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mohas.pair.com (mohas.pair.com [209.68.5.112]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF60DE29D6 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2024 11:29:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mohas.pair.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mohas.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE0573106 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2024 06:29:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from w540.andor.dropbear.id.au (unknown [IPv6:2405:6e00:293:d370::9e2]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mohas.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D6E0973118 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2024 06:29:43 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Colquhoun To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors? Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 22:29:37 +1100 Message-ID: <4550182.LvFx2qVVIh@w540.andor.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <6c3931ca-944a-41b1-8980-6e6ac10faacd@gmail.com> References: <6c3931ca-944a-41b1-8980-6e6ac10faacd@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Scanned-By: mailmunge 3.11 on 209.68.5.112 X-Archives-Salt: 14f9bbea-514e-4400-a412-39ad9edd47b8 X-Archives-Hash: 2ff5fe53b73ef833cff3e91a54ca2f39 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? >=20 > 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 it works perfectly... until I log out. Then it > resets everything and I have to set it up again. >=20 > Anyone have any clue why it refuses to save settings? >=20 > -Dan Have a look in /etc/Xorg/xorg.conf Mine has this section, which I think I edited by hand. My monitor config do= es=20 survive reboots. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection "man xorg.conf" gives the syntax. Here is the section for the "Screen" part= of=20 "ServerLayout" Screen screen-num "screen-id" position-information One of these entries must be given for each screen being used in a session. The screen-id field is mandatory, and specifies the Screen=20 section being referenced. The screen-num field is optional, and may be used to specify the screen number in multi-head configurations. When this field is omitted, the screens will be numbered in the order that they are listed in. The numbering starts from 0, and must be consecutive.=20 The position-information field describes the way multiple screens are positioned. There are a number of different ways that this information can be provided: x y Absolute x y These both specify that the upper left corner=E2=80=99s c= oordinates are (x,y). The Absolute keyword is optional. Some older versions of XFree86 (4.2 and earlier) don=E2=80=99t re= cognise the Absolute keyword, so it=E2=80=99s safest to just specify = the coordinates without it. RightOf "screen-id" LeftOf "screen-id" Above "screen-id" Below "screen-id" Relative "screen-id" x y These give the screen=E2=80=99s location relative to anot= her screen. The first four position the screen immediately to the right, left, above or below the other screen. When positioning to the right or left, the top edges are aligned. When positioning above or below, the left edges = are aligned. The Relative form specifies the offset of the screen=E2=80=99s origin (upper left corner) relative to t= he origin of another screen. =2D-=20 Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro