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[-] gridleaf@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Linux needs better multi-monitor support. It's better than it's ever been, but it's still janky and giving black screens on tertiary screens at times.

EDIT: It's funny how the comments are all over the place. "works for me", "it's broken on KDE but works on XFCE", "it's broken on XFCE but works on KDE", etc. I think that's a good sign there are problems with multi-monitor support.

[-] meisme@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Wayland fixes multi monitor

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Its more of a Desktop thing rather than Linux. If you use the right Desktop like Plasma then you have no issues at all.

I really don't see any problems with Multi monitor, I actually have more issues with Windows 11 right now in terms of multiple Displays

[-] Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've been messing with this on and off for a few years now and I still haven't seen support for multiple monitors running at different scaling levels (like running a 4K monitor at 125% alongside a 1080p monitor at 100%). This is a feature I use in Windows on one of my setups. I hope this gets some attention soon. I run Linux on most of my machines but this problem still gets in my way on others.

[-] eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 2 points 1 year ago

Plasma on Wayland can do that I'm pretty sure, and if you don't have an Nvidia GPU Wayland is fine nowadays. Hell, even if you have an Nvidia GPU it's mostly fine nowadays.

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Its very fine with Nvidia too

[-] Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Okay thanks, I haven't tried Wayland on that machine (which has an Nvidia card) but I'll give it a go! Appreciate the help.

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Then use Wayland, its there, its the default and KDE and Gnome should have each their own solution to this feature so you may compare them.

[-] eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 2 points 1 year ago

I've never had issues with multi monitor, what desktop are you using?

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I had the reverse experience. I have had no issues with multi-monitor (OpenSUSE, nVidia driver direct from nVideas own maintained Opensuse rpms) but on Windows I'm having Windows open black, or delayed, not recognizing external display, etc. Too many variables to make proper apples to apples comparisons.

[-] FarLine99@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Plasma has really good multi monitor support since 5.27. Use latest versions and be happy 🙂

[-] sudoku@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Plasma is probably the worst out of the few bigger DEs. If you don't replug the monitors the same way to the video card, the toolbars you have configured disappear and you cannot copy it from a different display or even make all toolbars identical on all monitors...

[-] FarLine99@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[-] sudoku@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago
[-] FarLine99@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

fuckedup. plasma is the worst DE, we will die all 🙂

[-] shrugal@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While this is probably still true, I doubt it's a big factor when talking about mass adoption.

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

How many people total do you think use more than display? How many Linux users or users that would be willing to use Linux would want more than one display? I'm betting it's a lot if not most. So while it may not be a big factor it probably is a factor that applies to most. Then you add up all the other stuff that just doesn't quite work right and you lost the incentive or motivation to switch.

[-] lel@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry but the majority of people absolutely do not use more than one display.

[-] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago

I haven't had any multiple monitor problems since switching to KDE that weren't actually Nvidia driver issues. My "TV" is a third monitor on a long ass HDMI cable.

[-] tuxed@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

My only remaining issue is that wayland has slightly more input latency when playing games, enough that it's noticeable (or a very convincing placebo effect).

This makes it so that I have to use X11 and that I have to disable compositioning when playing games as my displays have different refresh rates. All in all, not a big problem but looking forward to be on wayland for good soon.

[-] airikr@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Indeed. I use Xfce and have to switch to Cinnamon to get a very good multi-monitor support.

[-] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Why? I am running XFCE and didn't have any problem using an external monitor.

[-] airikr@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Xfce have a hard time recognize recently plugged in monitors. I have to restart the PC with the monitors plugged in to have a 50/50 chance to make it work. Or just switch to Cinnamon and make it wok right away.

[-] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Have you tried any other distro with XFCE? I am running Gentoo and Void and both are fine.

[-] airikr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Nope. Since Cinnamon fixes the issue, I have no plans to test with other distros 😊 But I might some day.

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