Hey there OpenSUSE Community,
I hope you are all well.
I wanted to reach out to you all for some advice on how I could best handle a recent issue started on my lab box with KDE.
Today, when logging into the system I noticed that my screens (I have two) had changed from 1 / 2 (left to right) to 2 / 1 (right then leading into left). I went into display and changed them proper and then clicked apply - that’s when things got really interesting.
From there, my left screen was reaching into my right screen. Too, my right screen started to have a sort of rapid and slight space vibration to anything on that screen. I started to pull things over just to check and windows were fine in the left monitor but shaking in the right. While they were not shaking in the left monitor, the two did share something similar: they each had really huge icons and task bars.
I wasn’t sure what was wrong, so I figured a good restart might do the trick. It did not. So, I tried a full power down, turn off the power, and restore power and turn on (I came from Windows… can you tell? lol).
These steps did not resolve the issue. So, I went further and started a next test by downloading XFCE (just picking a random DE) and seeing if the system would react the same (I wasn’t sure if this was a video card issue). Upon logging into XFCE, I noticed a dramatic and stable change; there were no issues – at all.
I logged out to XFCE session and started Plasma (vanilla) and found the display issues were unchanged. Then, I tried Wayland and Full Wayland with poorer experiences than Vanilla Plasma.
Next, I reopened XFCE and did a DE removal of KDE Plamsa and reinstall. I attempted a new session start of KDE and the issues persisted.
To this point, I haven’t been able to decide other options I could try and resolve this issue. I’m not stuck to using KDE Plasma but I do really enjoy fixing and learning from experiences like this. So, I wanted to reach out to the community and ask for some suggestions, please.
Thank you!