Hello everyone,
I have an issue with my “Primary” display the past three weeks, and I did not manage to find a solution on Reddit about it, so time to ask the forums. I asked Fedora forums and they advised me to post my issue here.
Basically around a month ago I wanted to do a fresh installation and did install Fedora 41 (KDE) from the beginning.
Once installed, upon the first reboot, I noticed something weird. My main monitor was not actually the “Primary” display. In the “Display Configuration” settings, which I did check if Fedora recognizes correctly the monitors and it does, my main monitor “LG” is not set as “Primary display” but the taskbar and main windows do open in this monitor. If I set it as the “Primary Display”, the taskbar and everything else shifts to the second monitor.
I did another reboot at some point, without connecting the second monitor, as it was the same case! My primary monitor did not have a taskbar or and files where missing for the Desktop.
I am not sure what type of information I should upload so please do tell me if you need any further information.
Install Fedora KDE version 40 or later.
I installed a bunch of different shells with different versions. In the end, I decided that I should try to install Fedora KDE Plasma not 42, not 41, but 40 versions. And everything worked out.
First thing is to upgrade to Fedora 42 and check if it fixes the problem as there were many multi-monitor fixes in recent versions of KDE.
…or maybe not as it seems the same version of KDE is available in Fedora 41 and 42:
$ dnf --releasever=41 list --available plasma-workspace
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Available packages
plasma-workspace.x86_64 6.3.4-2.fc41 updates
$ dnf --releasever=42 list --available plasma-workspace
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Available packages
plasma-workspace.x86_64 6.3.4-3.fc42 updates
1 Like
Could you find any solution? Is kind of annoying. The same behaviour is happening to me, on Fedora 42 and KDE Plasma 6.3.5
1 Like
Hi, i am facing the same issue. I have to set “primary” in Display-Settings on the wrong/not wanted Display in order to get my controlpanel on the display, that ist really the primary one for me. I agree that this is annoying, since the issue is on a very basic level - having 2 displays, where one should be the primary (Notebook integrated + external).
fyi
thx
I was having this issue as well with a new Fedora 42 KDE Plasma install. When choosing a Primary monitor, it kept putting the taskbar onto the secondary monitor for some reason. I don’t know why it happened in the first place, but manually moving the taskbar to the primary monitor was simple enough-
To do that, right-click on the desktop and choose Enter Edit Mode, then choose Manage Panels and Desktops at the top. In the Manage Panels and Desktops window, click on the button with the 3 horizontal lines to the right of the taskbar panel, and choose the option to move it to your other monitor.
Okay, so KDE Plasma 6.4 decided to set my primary monitor to the left one (I have three monitors), and I CANNOT change it to the center monitor without messing them up!
Anyone know of a fix, please tell me!
All my games launch on the primary monitor, instead of the CENTER one.
1 Like
Had a similar issue, but removing the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/kwinoutputconfig.json set it to defaults, giving me opportunity to the usual behavior.
I have similar issue. Primary display is set correctly but when monitors powers down and I wake them up my primary is set where it should be but my main panel goes to other monitor. I need to switch it to other monitor and back to “primary” to get it back.