Questions tagged [multi-monitor]
Encompasses the configuration, usage, and control of additional displays / monitors / screens. Often termed dual-monitor or dual-head (for two monitors), and often in involving external displays. Connection methods include VGA, DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort. For single displays, use "monitors" instead. For directing a program's graphical output, you may also want the "display" tag.
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Cannot Connect Second Monitor via Docking Station Linux Mint
I have two monitors connected to my laptop via a J5 Create docking station. Both monitors connect fine in Windows 11, but in Linux Mint only one of the monitors will switch on. There aren't specific ...
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How do I prevent KDE (Wayland) from responding to display "changes"?
I have several computers that I switch between using a KVM. One of them in particular experience frequent KWin crashes (which tends to incur collateral damage) whenever I switch between machines. The ...
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Monitor continuous blanking issue on Ubuntu 20.04
I have a workstation at work that was given to me for a project and it's on my desk with my work's laptop. Not liking the idea of having 2 mice and 2 keyboards on my desk and all, I decided to buy a ...
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xfreerdp multimonitor shows default desktop screen mirrored in fullscreen on CachyOS with KDE Plasma
I'm trying to connect to use remote servers in multi monitor setup with following command
xfreerdp3 /d:foobar.intranet /u:myuser /v:xx.xx.xx.31 \
+clipboard +sound -wallpaper /cert:ignore \
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Session resets after rearranging the monitors on Fedora
I have an external monitor on my laptop, but it's placed wrong on the right instead of on the left from of my laptop display. When I go to displays configuration on my Fedora 42, I can rearrange it. ...
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Chromium kiosk mode across dual monitors - portrait mode (1080×1920), and stacked vertically
I have two monitors, both originally 1920×1080 (landscape). I want to rotate both to portrait mode so that their effective resolution becomes 1080×1920, and then stack them vertically using xrandr.
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External Monitor Not Working via DisplayLink (JUA365) on Fedora 42
I’m running Fedora 42 installed on an external NVMe (2TB) drive connected to my MacBook Pro (Early 2015). My system setup is as follows:
CPU: Intel i7 (Broadwell, MacBook Pro)
Graphics: Intel Iris ...
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The second screen monitor doesn’t work with i3 on VGA
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I connected trough VGA cable a second screen to my laptop running i3, but the second screen stay black. The second screen just show a message “No signal” some seconds, then “Entering ...
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Cannot set full native resolution of external monitor
I have a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 12 with the following specs:
$ inxi -Fzxx
System:
Kernel: 6.14.9-300.fc42.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1....
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Neither Win11 nor Manjaro pick or show the correct edid entry
I have an Acer CB382CUR ultrawide curved monitor which allows 75Hz at its native resolution of 3840x1600. Connecting my Dell 9310 (Intel Iris Xe) via USB-C and Displayport Alt Mode only allows setting ...
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ThinkPad Universal USB-C Dock: Somehow recognized, but monitors, ethernet and fwupd don't work with T570
I have a "ThinkPad Universal USB-C Dock" (Link to German Lenovo page) that works reasonably well with a DELL 5560: Monitors via Displayport, Ethernet, USB, fwupd all work. The DELL is ...
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Xpra shadow server on dual-monitor setup: duplicate windows instead of split view
I have a PC with two monitors, running X11. I'm using `xpra` in shadow mode to export the session. Here's how I launch the server:
xpra shadow :0 --bind-tcp=0.0.0.0:14600,auth=file,filename=$HOME/....
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How to achieve the following dual-monitor configuration using xrandr?
I have two displays: a large 4K one, and a smaller 1080p one (oriented as shown in the image). They are connected to Display port and HDMI on the rear IO of my Ryzen 5700G desktop (integrated graphics;...
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Gnome terminal doesn't display the first letter of every line
The Gnome terminal app is missing a letter... but only sometimes.
It happens only when maximized (as in Alt+F10 or Super+Up arrow) or in full screen (F11 button) on a Full HD 1920 × 1080 external ...
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What do I need to make my Debian see my external monitor?
I am trying to make my Debian Linux (KDE Plasma desktop environment, Wayland, stable channel) see my external monitor.
My /etc/apt/sources.list :
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 12.6.0 _Bookworm_ - ...
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