Issue with Primary Display when using two monitors

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Hello everyone,

I have an issue with the “Primary” display the past three weeks, and I did not manage to find a solution on Reddit about it, so time to ask the forums!

Basically around a month ago I wanted to do a fresh installation and did install Fedora 41 (KDE) from the beginning.

Once installed, upon the first reboot, I noticed something weird. My main monitor was not actually the “Primary” display. In the “Display Configuration” settings, which I did check if Fedora recognizes correctly the monitors and it does, my main monitor “LG” is not set as “Primary display” but the taskbar and main windows do open in this monitor. If I set it as the “Primary Display”, the taskbar and everything else shifts to the second monitor.

I did another reboot at some point, without connecting the second monitor, as it was the same case! My primary monitor did not have a taskbar or and files where missing for the Dekstop.

I am not sure what type of information I should upload so please do tell me if you need any further information.

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Would swapping the wires on the video card’s video-output ports be a workaround?

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Welcome to Fedora @visagedemort

Can you please open the Wallpaper Settings and change the layout option to see if this changes something for you.

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Thank you very much!

Unfortunately that did not work out!

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I did try that out. Unfortunately that did not work too.

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Strange. I guess I’d just physically switch the places of the monitors then, but if your monitors are not the same, that might not be ideal.

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Can you just change the position of your taskbar onto the secondary monitor?

If you right-click it, then “Show Panel Configuration”, you should be able to just drag and drop it. (I have mine on my secondary display.)

Not sure about desktop file icons though - I don’t use them.

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Ultimately, that is what I am planning to do. But I would like to find out what is wrong, if that is possible!

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Have you at least logged out in between? To see if this changes something. Sometimes such changes not apear on the moment clicking on them.

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It might also be worth asking on the KDE forum (https://discuss.kde.org/) since this is probably a question about Plasma in general rather than Fedora’s Plasma in particular.

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