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 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.
>
> Anyone have any clue why it refuses to save settings?
>
> -Dan
Have a look in /etc/Xorg/xorg.conf
Mine has this section, which I think I edited by hand. My monitor config does
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
"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
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.
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’s coordinates
are (x,y). The Absolute keyword is optional. Some older
versions of XFree86 (4.2 and earlier) don’t recognise the
Absolute keyword, so it’s 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’s location relative to another 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’s origin (upper left corner) relative to the
origin of another screen.
--
Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/
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