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When adding a second monitor, that's configured as the Primary, all existing open windows remain on the now secondary monitor

Open capttrousers opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

What Happened?

I found a few issues for this, but Im not sure if they're related, or if there's a config setting I should set to get this behavior, or what.

https://github.com/elementary/gala/pull/885 https://github.com/elementary/gala/issues/886

Note this might be tangentially related to Workspaces, but I dont use those, so all the windows are on a single Workspace.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Have a laptop with some open windows
  2. Plug in an external monitor that is already recognized by the display settings, and which will become the Primary display

Actual: The open windows stay on the laptop screen, even though that's now the non Primary display.

Expected Behavior

Expected: All open windows are still on the Primary display, which means they move to the external monitor, which was just plugged in and is now the Primary display

OS Version

6.x (Odin)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

No response

Hardware Info

Its an Acer laptop plugging in an HP monitor, but I doubt the specific hw really matters.

capttrousers avatar Nov 15 '21 20:11 capttrousers