2nd monitor is black (but recognized and can move the cursor there)

Hi, I’m brand new to OpenSuse Tumbleweed (after having a hell of a week with Manjaro). Everything looks fine except that the second monitor remains black even though it is detected and I can move and see the cursor on it. I’m using a laptop with Ryzen 7 and AMD radeon graphics. I have switched between HDMI 1 and 2 on the monitor and unplugged and plugged back the cable to my laptop without any success. Could you help me pleaae?

When you can move the cursor there, it is fully detected. Dependend on your used desktop environment you only need to choose a wallpaper for the second screen. What happens when you right click on the 2nd screen? Does the menu open? Dependend on the desktop environment you have a menu for background/wallpaper there.

Hi, thanks for replying so quickly. Yes the menu opened up and I was able to change the wallpaper. The problem was so simple. The wallpaper was just black by default. Thanks a lot for your help. You have just saved me a big headache with my work session this afternoon.

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