[gentoo-user] Multi monitor in KDE - remember window placement as default for all windows?

[gentoo-user] Multi monitor in KDE - remember window placement as default for all windows?

[Daniel Frey]

Well, I found a pretty good deal (for around here) on a 32" monitor. So, 
I've set this up and turned my old 24" to portrait orientation. KDE's 
control panel's display setting had me get the orientation set up 
correctly in about 10 seconds.

It took me a bit longer to figure out how to move the task bar to the 
larger monitor, but all is good.

One more annoying thing I've noticed now is that I have two monitors, 
KDE seems to randomly plop new windows whereever it likes. I mean 
literally. Sometimes it's on the new (secondary) monitor, sometimes it's 
on the primary, sometimes it's between the two. Really bizarre.

After a little bit of fiddling around, I found out you can get an 
application window to remember its size and position (which is great, at 
least the option is there.)

Not so nice is that I have to tell every new window I open (well, the 
ones that open all over the place) to remember their settings.

Is there a way to make this a global change for all windows? This is 
getting irritating.

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor in KDE - remember window placement as default for all windows?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 20:04:27 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote:

> After a little bit of fiddling around, I found out you can get an 
> application window to remember its size and position (which is great,
> at least the option is there.)
> 
> Not so nice is that I have to tell every new window I open (well, the 
> ones that open all over the place) to remember their settings.
> 
> Is there a way to make this a global change for all windows? This is 
> getting irritating.

In System Settings -> Display and Monitor you can set the primary
display. Windows without a saved preference should be opened on this
display. Is that what you need?


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Sometimes too much to drink is not enough.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor in KDE - remember window placement as default for all windows?

[Daniel Frey]

On 02/12/18 01:20, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 20:04:27 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote:
> 
>> After a little bit of fiddling around, I found out you can get an 
>> application window to remember its size and position (which is great,
>> at least the option is there.)
>>
>> Not so nice is that I have to tell every new window I open (well, the 
>> ones that open all over the place) to remember their settings.
>>
>> Is there a way to make this a global change for all windows? This is 
>> getting irritating.
> 
> In System Settings -> Display and Monitor you can set the primary
> display. Windows without a saved preference should be opened on this
> display. Is that what you need?
> 
> 

Yes, that's better. I think it was looking random before as it was
trying to open new windows on the portrait monitor and not fitting... so
it would spread across both.

Dan