https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405688
Bug ID: 405688
Summary: Option to move all windows to primary monitor on
display change
Product: kwin
Version: 5.15.2
Platform: Kubuntu Packages
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: activities
Assignee: kwin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: leftcr...@tutanota.com
Target Milestone: ---
I have two monitors and a laptop. The laptop monitor is turned off when any
external is plugged in. The secondary monitor is positioned on the left.
The problem is that Kwin, at least under X11, simply takes the left-most point
as the origin, regardless of what your primary monitor is. It thus shifts most
of the windows to the left on connecting a secondary display.
I know this is by design to keep track of arrangement, but this breaks down
when you have a monitor on the left.In practice, it destroys the the sort of
arrangement the user expects, first by moving them to the secondary display,
then by resizing all of them to fit. So the layout gets changed radically.
I added a KWin rule to force the windows to Display 1 (primary in my case), but
this only works for some of the windows, some of the time.
Is there some stopgap measure that could be introduced to move ALL windows to
the primary display whenever a change in the monitor configuration takes place?
This wouldn't do much good for people who just have a secondary monitor on the
right - the default behavior is fine for them. But those who have one the left
need some quicks way to overrule the default which shifts all their windows to
a place they don't expect.
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