Hi everyone,
I’m having an issue with my dual-monitor setup after a recent update.
I normally keep several icons on my desktop (KDE Plasma 6.5.3), arranged on my primary monitor. However, after the update, all my desktop icons get compressed into three columns and appear on the second monitor instead of the main one.
My primary display is correctly set in System Settings, but every time I log in or reboot, the icons still end up on the secondary monitor.
Does anyone know how to make the icons stay on the main monitor on startup, in the layout I arranged?
Thanks for any help!
Hi. Same issue here (on Wayland—you as well?) but I’ve found a solution that worked for me and I also wanted to share my troubleshooting efforts.
Solution:
Right-click on the second monitor > Desktop and Wallpaper: Set Layout to “Desktop” instead of “Folder”. This should move your icons.
I wonder if a previous update flipped this setting for me, or whether it changed due to something else entirely (since this was not previously an issue for me). In any case, hopefully this also fixes your issue. Note, however, that you will no longer be able to right-click and create new text files, etc., on the monitors set to “Desktop”.
Other troubleshooting efforts:
I thought at first that I might have an incorrect setting to flag my primary monitor. On Wayland, the “primary” monitor checkbox that I remembered from x11 does not exist in System Settings > Display & Monitor > Display Configuration. As such, I tried to use kscreen-doctor as described here in §3.1. The output.'Monitor Info'.primary command ran without error but did not return anything. However, I later discovered that by right-clicking on my taskbar and pressing Show Panel Configuration > Manage Desktops and Panels, my main monitor was indeed identified as “Primary” by the system (and since the icons were not on that monitor by default, the “Primary” setting could not be the culprit).
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