https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389016
Bernd Steinhauser <li...@bernd-steinhauser.de> changed:
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--- Comment #5 from Bernd Steinhauser <li...@bernd-steinhauser.de> ---
Sorry, if I bring this up again, but afaics, this is the original bug for this.
bug 390638 and bug 392578 seem duplicates.
(In reply to Sebastian Kügler from comment #2)
> The problem is that Primary Display is not a thing in Wayland. We haven't
> entirely made up our mind what we want it for, so that is a bit in limbo. As
> KScreen reads the actual screen setup, and not just a config file, it's
> expected (but not intuitive) that the primary display setting won't be saved.
>
> What do you want to achieve by setting the primary display?
I recently decided to give Plasma (Wayland) a try again and it mostly works
fine so far, but this thing here really is a set-back.
I've got a multi-screen setup with two screens of which one is the primary
screen (in the meaning how I use it) and I want the desktop widget, panel etc.
to appear there.
For some reason (and this seems completely random), plasma decides that the
other screen is preferred and I can't change it.
Sure, I could move the panel and stuff to the other screen, but this seems
tedious (multiple to many steps, depending on the layout) and actually
completely unnecessary, if you could actually solve it by defining a primary
output.
In addition, I have the problem that the application dashboard, which I really
like, cannot be moved to the other screen.
It will always open on the screen that plasma decided to be the default screen.
This is a showstopper for me, because after getting used to the dashboard, I
can't really use the other two menu options anymore and for various reasons, I
can't really use the dashboard on the second screen as is as well.
But ok, that's just me. Now for the actual reason why I deem something like
this really important.
At work, I'm using a laptop computer with a relatively small display on
Windows.
Windows, btw, does have a "main screen" setting (not sure if it's actually
called like that, but it's there) and it works great.
I use that laptop commonly with different screen configurations, especially:
1. Only the laptop display: laptop display should be main screen
2. laptop display + external display: now I want to have the panel on the
bigger screen, which would be impossible to set up in plasma/wayland right now.
3. laptop display + 2 external displays: in addition to 2. I want to be able to
select on which display the panel shows up.
Note that the panel shouldn't be specific to a certain monitor. That again
would be tedious to setup.
Another usecase: if you e.g. have a beamer or TV connected to the computer and
extend the desktop to that beamer, you don't want that to end up as the default
screen, hence a setting to prefer the other screen would really help here.
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