I have just attached my new monitor in DVI-0, while my old monitor is on DVI-1. I have configured my new montor to be the default one and it works most of the times.
Something when I start a new application it starts in my old/secondary monitor. How can I make sure that all new applications are started in the main monitor?
Clicking on Kmix in the system tray opens kmix audio setting not in the monitor that has the system tray, but the secondary one. This is a bit strange. Same goes for my KDE Display Configuration lying in the system tray.
Somehow it seems setting a screen as default only has effect on where the panels are placed.
In KDE4.12 system-settings, the Screen & Monitor module let you choose the primary display (click the star at the bottom of the display so it turns yellow).
Alternatively, for each window you can set the screen or position in the advanced settings - right click the title bar>more actions>special window configurations. For example, setting “position” to “remember” or “screen” to “X”, X being your screen number, probably 0 or 1.
One of these should fix your problem, IF you have the system/hardware I’m assuming you have. Next time you may want to inform your oS and DE version, as well as the (relevant to the issue) hardware/driver info as gogalthorp requested. That way we can better help you.
Good suggestion brunomcl. I recall playing with these settings while having access to dual monitor configuration at work once, but it was months ago. Usually, I just drag what I want manually, since I tend to operate with a single display (too lazy to attach standalone monitor), unless the tasks at hand are too tedious to cope with one display.
Forgot these:
Opensuse 13.1
KDE 4.13.1
NVidia Geforce 650 Ti using NVidia own drivers
As i wrote in the OP i have already set my new monitor as default (Star icon). The only default is mostly where the panel is placed. Most of the times applications are opened in the main monitor, but something it opens in the secondary monitor.
