Re: Weird multiple display issue
Thomas Cameron via users composed on 2023-01-25 14:19 (UTC-0600):
I have a multi monitor machine. The displays are set up like this:
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So I have three large monitors and a smaller tablet below the far
right
monitor.
The weird thing is, it seems like the desktop THINKS my screen looks
like this:
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I can't tell you if it differs for Wayland users, but for Xorg users, that's
exactly what you have, vast expanses of the defined desktop space that is not
available for display, other than via a screenshot. Desktop spaces are always
rectangles defined by the extremities. e.g.....
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display anything useful.
If you wish it fixed, move the tablet up alongside screen #3 with bottoms flush.
Then your untouchable space will be limited to space above the top of the tablet.
Alternatively, relocate the leftmost screen over or under screen #2.
Hopefully, the screenshots I uploaded can help with understanding, if help is
needed. Their individual life expectancies are a week each. Included in each is an
arandr window that depicts the logical screen placements. All were made on F37
freshly upgraded except for using a 6.0.18 kernel:
1-4 different size displays tightly clustered, with one app open cornered at
farthest distance from center of overall desktop per display:
https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/06e36edeccd6
2-same as #1, except each of the 4 cornered windows has been maximized:
https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/9e45b16325ec
3-twin smaller displays with 2 different larger displays, with windows as in #1:
https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/b356918e6712
4-same as #3, except each of the 4 cornered windows has been maximized:
https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/0c7e690a57fa
3 & 4 have a roughly similar effect on the overall desktop boundaries as in OP: on
the right side there's a drop below the bottom of the left screen, causing
anything left of the portion of that display that is below the left display to be
unreachable with any pointing device, but visible in a screenshot, because Xorg
desktops are rectangles.
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