https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494161
Bug ID: 494161
Summary: Applications always open on the wrong screen!
Classification: Plasma
Product: kwin
Version: 6.1.5
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: major
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: kwin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: kde-bugs.m3...@slmail.me
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
Since switching to KDE 6.1 (Upgrading to Fedora 40), all the application open
on the wrong screen, exactly the opposite screen I expect them open in!
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Use a laptop
2. Connect an external screen to it
3. Extend the external screen to the left of the laptop
4. Make the external screen the primary screen.
5. move your mouse to the main screen
6. Open krunner, hopefully it open on the primary screen (where you mouse is)
and not the laptop one!
7. open an application, it open on the other screen than krunner was open on!?
OBSERVED RESULT
Application always open on the wrong screen! always the one I am not looking
at, always the one I am not interacting with (through the mouse or krunner)!
EXPECTED RESULT
Similar to 5.7, application are open on the focus screen, the screen where the
mouse is and / or where the current interaction is happening!
And at login, Primary screen should ALWAYS be the focused screen, not the
secondary screen!
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora Linux 40 x86_64 6.10.11-200.fc40.x86_64
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.6.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
External screen is extending the desktop to the left and is primary.
Laptop screen is secondary monitor.
KDE 5.7 had no issue opening in the correct screen.
Someone seemed to have had a similar issue for ever ago:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393229
All online search ask about activating or deactivating options that do not
exist:
```
There's window management settings. The ones you're gonna want to look at are
"Active screen follows mouse" in the focus tab and "Window placement" in the
advanced tab.
```
- There is no such things as "Window placement" or screen focus option (even
when searching the setting)
```
There's also specifically what you're after, "allow kde apps to remember their
positions"
```
There is no such option anywhere in the settings or windows rules.
Application tested with the issue:
krunner, firefox, brave, gimp, Dolphin, System settings, steam, ... (all of
them)
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