I’m having an issue only over the last few days so I’m not sure if it’s been caused by an update or something I’ve pressed by mistake!
My desktop icons are moving from my main monitor to my vertical monitor at every boot. They’re not sorted in the same way and seem to just be plonked on there. This hasn’t been an issue for the last 6 or so months I’ve been using Fedora.
Not sure how much of this will matter but just in case - I’m on Fedora 43 KDE on an Asus Rog Strix Scar Laptop. My main monitor is a display port monitor, the monitor the icons are moving to is a HDMI monitor. My laptop screen and main monitor are both 1440p and the HDMI monitor is 1080p. It’s running an Nvidia 4090 laptop GPU with an AMD 7945HX CPU.
I’ve double checked the sort icon settings on the desktop aren’t set to sort by anything other than unsorted. My
Any help would be appreciated as although it’s a small thing in the grand scheme of things, it’s driving me nuts! My main monitor is the primary monitor in the desktop settings and the arrangement is correct.
When you believe it is just lately because of an update please have a look what kind of updates you made.
Are you using dnf or the Software app from KDE?
If you do mainly using the software app in KDE, you have to search with “dnf4 history list”. Otherwise it is dnf.
Might be that you can downgrade the app if you can localize it.
Yeah it started I think on Friday afternoon. I use discover to apply the system upgrades. I haven’t installed any new apps that I can remember other than a game via steam. There has been an nvidia driver update that applied so I could try seeing if I can downgrade that but would something like that cause desktop items to move? I’ve tried putting the icons on my laptop screen and they still move. They only don’t if the 3rd monitor isn’t connected and they stay on which ever monitor I left them on.
It feels like it’s initialising the desktop first on the other monitor but of course my feeling isn’t worth anything!
I can not help you with NVIDIA. Have you checked in the settings. On Gnome I can select the order of the monitors. It might recognized them different since the update?
I am seeing just a difference in the screenshots, on yours it has an option more “scaled and cropped”, did you try to give a change there too? Even if it look not as expected, you might try to logout with the changes made and log in again?
Is this a new F42 installation or did you make an update?
If it is updated, are you still using x11on place of wayland?
Some users have had problems with the latest nvidia drivers (580.105.08) and some bugs have been filed on that release. I had problems with steam and others report problems with monitor resolutions.
You can downgrade the driver back to the 580.95.05 version by
ensure that you have the rpmfusion-nonfree repo enabled. dnf repolist will show the enabled repos and if it is not already enabled then follow the instructions from rpmfusion to install and enable that repo.
After ensuring the repo is enabled then downgrade the driver with sudo dnf downgrade \*nvidia\* --exclude nvidia-gpu-firmware --allowerasing which should pull in the older driver and install it.
