Re: multi screen issues

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Even though there's no info in this post, make sure you're running 5.8.4
(enable -testing if you have to).

This resolved all of my strange issues with multiscreen & laptops with
KDE & F24.

Or update to F25 which already has 5.8.4.

On 10/12/16 10:43, ProPAAS DBA wrote:
> All;
> 
> 
> I'm running Fedora 24 KDE spin on a thinkpad X1 carbon 4th gen laptop. I
> have 2 external monitors and most often they work well, I plug one into
> the hdmi port and a second via a vga adapter into the laptop's mini
> display port.
> 
> More and more often I'm having issues when I plug in the external
> monitors. The menu & taskbar/panel jumps around asI plug in the
> monitors. I want this to stay on the laptop. Even though the display
> settings shows the laptop as the primary screen
> 
> Sometimes one of the external monitors will show up with no background,
> I can move the mouse to it and I can drag windows to it but I cannot
> right click on the background and get a menu.
> 
> 
> 
> I've even tried manually controlling the monitors via xrandr, the last
> time I had issues my panel moved to a secondary monitor, xrandr reported
> that the laptop was indeed still set as the primary, running "xrandr
> --output eDP-1 --primary" had no effect. I generally have to reboot 5 or
> 6 times to get the external monitors to behave. Sometimes I actually
> have to remove my .config directory before it will work.
> 
> 
> Can anyone help me debug this?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
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