Dual Monitors KDE 6.7

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ello all ,I am trying to get 1 monitor per virtual desktop working.

At the moment I have 2 monitors per virtual desktop ,all working fine from a hardware point of view.

In /systensettings/windowmanagement/virtualdesktops/ the "switch desktops independently for each screen " is set.

Can someone please point me in the right direction to solve this

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20260717

KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.3

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.28.0

Qt Version: 6.11.1

Kernel Version: 7.1.3-1-default (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 20 × Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 265K
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.0 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 6400
Graphics Processor 2: Intel® Graphics
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7E41
System Version: 2.0

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This should work out of the box with the setting shown in the KDE Plasma announcement. If not, test with a fresh user:

It only works with Wayland. Not with X11 or XWayland.

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Thanks for that idea but it made no difference when I tried it. I also thought it should just work out of the box. need to investigate Wayland setup I think.

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It would appear that one needs to compile KDE6.7 from source to get this to work. I cant be bothered , so will wait until the OS version just works out of the box.

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Isn’t it this:

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As I said in my first post the is set but make no difference .

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This thread lacks a detailed description “what does not work” or how it misbehaves in your case.

With this description one can only point you to the upstream Plasma bugtracker to do some advanced searches with different search terms if your special problem is already reported…

One possible search term is “independently”..

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*quote=“IanGrind, post:1, topic:195107”]
I am trying to get 1 monitor per virtual desktop working.

At the moment I have 2 monitors per virtual desktop ,all working fine from a hardware point of view.
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Sorry but I thought I had , so from the first 3 line of my OP as above.

What I need is the ability to copy data from on application to another which I can already do so I will leave this unfixed for now. I’m sure with time and updates it will just start to work.

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It is still unclear. Do you maybe have extended screen set? Or is monitor 2 a copy of monitor 1?

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As I have already said 3 times now I have 2 screens per virtual desktop. When I switch virtual desktop the new virtual desktop is across the 2 screens. I cant think how to make this any simpler !!

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Works flawlessly here…so likely not a Plasma issue.

I click on the desktop of the first monitor. Scroll mouswheel changes between virtual desktops of monitor 1.
I click on the desktop of the second monitor. Scroll mousewheel changes between virtual desktops of monitor 2.

The OSD also confirms that the virtual screens are working independend for each monitor.

Additionally i testet with apps. Browser on monitor 1, VS 1. VS 2 blank.
Systemsetting window on monitor 2, VS1. VS 2 blank.

Switching the VS on monitor 1 does not switch the VS on monitor 2 and vice versa.

If you have 2 virtual screens in systemsettings setup, these 2 VS count per monitor. That means 2 VS in systemsettings are 4 virtual screens in reality with 2 monitors (only if you have the pointed out checkbox ticked…).