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No-Drawing-1508

KDE Plasma gets confused on which monitor is the primary monitor?

General Bug

Ive been using fedora and cachy os with KDE for a few months. Ive noticed on my machine with dual monitors KDE seems to get confused on which monitor is the primary monitor?

When I first setup the system when i set my main display to the primary display the system seemed to treat some things as primary on one screen and other things as primary on the other screen? For example my apps would go to the second display when i added them to my desktop, but the task bar / dock would be on the main display as expected?

I fixed this by swapping the monitors cables on my gpu, so my main display was DP1 and my second display was DP2, changing the layout on the second display to "desktop" instead of "folder view".

Like this is works fine 99% of the time but rarely some apps / games randomly decide to open on the second monitor instead of the main monitor and they always open like that so every time i have to move it over.

It's not a huge problem but Im wondering if anyone else has had problems with multiple displays on KDE because this is the main problem I have with it and its really random how it treats my display. Theres not really a pattern to it it just seems to be confused which display is actually the main display.

Posted Apr 7, 2026, 11:34 AM UTC

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