Gnome crashes after moving secondary screen

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Hi, I have two screens connected to two different graphic cards on my PC. This morning I found the primary screen faulty (shows nothing when connected to another PC, too), so I swapped it with a new one, which works but it’s positioned in the wrong place by Gnome: it’s physically located on the right, as it’s always been before (primary monitor on the right, secondary on the left), but if I move the mouse pointer on the left edge of the primary screen, it does not enter the secondary screen; it happens instead that it enters the secondary screen when I move it on the right edge.
In gnome-control-center > Screens I can see the primary on the left and secondary on the right, but when I try to move them (even if I move just one of them a little) gnome crashes as soon as I click on “Apply”, and the new position is not kept.

Is there any configuration to reset, or similar? Please ask me which details I have to share with you,

thank you very much
Angus

GNOME Shell 47.9
Fedora 41

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Each monitor has a serial number and the desktop uses that to record the position you configure.

As you have a new monitor connected you will need to go into settings and tell the system where its positioned.

3

Thank you Barry, could you explain me which settings your are referring to? The gnome-control-center, “display” section, is affected by the problem.

4

I don’t use gnome but assume it has a “displays” section in its settings where you set the position of the screens.

5

Thanks for the advice, but that is indeed the action that triggers the crash. Is there any way to reset the configuration by deleting any file, or so?