Oh yeah that is where my extreme dislike of Wayland comes from that BS moving my apps wherever the hell it felt like doing them to.
I have three connected to my main computer, though I am lazy, it is never too much of a strain to push a power button or in the case of the HDTV I use to watch my videos on pickup the remote and do it there. I agree the laptops are a different use case, still the power button is nice and handy in that video when needed.
I can’t blame it on Wayland. This was on my X11/nVidia desktop that I’m typing this from.
When you turn off a screen, kwin will move all windows on it to the other visible screen. But if it does that when you have only one screen, or when you turn off all screens, then I think that’s a bug, and you should create a bug report.
I have only one screen and multiple virtual desktops. At least the script works once I turn off Steam, although I have to run it once or twice and this is the reason I did the script in the first place.
Being able to just use the power button would be much nicer.
I had a similar problem.
In my case, I had a desktop machine running Fedora42 connected to two monitors, one via HDMI and one via DisplayPort.
The monitor connected via HDMI would turn off the screen and then turn on again when it went into power saving mode.
The solution was to swap the HDMI and DisplayPort.
In other words, I connected the DisplayPort to the monitor that had previously been connected via HDMI, and connected the HDMI to the monitor that had been connected via DisplayPort.
Perhaps the monitors were incompatible, but this solved the problem.
Not my case. The laptop is connected to the monitor via USB-c.
It appears that the new Philips monitors are subpar in many respects.