I have a dual 4k monitor setup, bottom one is primary going through a KVM and top one is secondary. Top one has a secondary input going to my work PC to act as a secondary monitor for work, this uses displayport to the work PC, while HDMI is used straight to my PC. Bottom one on the KVM is HDMI too and work PC is also hooked up to KVM for another monitor as well. There is a separate monitor for primary for work that is separate from the Linux one.
For working from home I just switch the input of the top monitor to work PC, then I can KVM for the bottom one to go between personal and work PC. For some reason when I switch the input on the top monitor it starts screwing with my display settings in Linux, it acts like the monitor is not there basically. It's very random though. It will duplicate the displays, and put them one on top of each other, like literally, both screens on top, I need to drag them up then get the order right and basically mess around until everything is back to normal. I need to do this every time I simply switch the input. Very annoying.
To be fair Windows is HORRIBLE for this and will do it even if you simply turn off a monitor, and people have been complaining about that since like 2010 and they refuse to fix it. It seems to be a displayport thing, but in this case the Linux one is hooked up via HDMI so I don't know why it's doing it. I'm hoping it's not the same in Linux and that there is actually a fix. So is there a setting somewhere for this? I just want it to not change my display settings no matter what input the monitor is set to.
For working from home I just switch the input of the top monitor to work PC, then I can KVM for the bottom one to go between personal and work PC. For some reason when I switch the input on the top monitor it starts screwing with my display settings in Linux, it acts like the monitor is not there basically. It's very random though. It will duplicate the displays, and put them one on top of each other, like literally, both screens on top, I need to drag them up then get the order right and basically mess around until everything is back to normal. I need to do this every time I simply switch the input. Very annoying.
To be fair Windows is HORRIBLE for this and will do it even if you simply turn off a monitor, and people have been complaining about that since like 2010 and they refuse to fix it. It seems to be a displayport thing, but in this case the Linux one is hooked up via HDMI so I don't know why it's doing it. I'm hoping it's not the same in Linux and that there is actually a fix. So is there a setting somewhere for this? I just want it to not change my display settings no matter what input the monitor is set to.
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