From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 28/12/2021 06.46, bad sector wrote:   
   > On 12/27/21 6:13 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 27/12/2021 23.44, bad sector wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> a familiar line from "Cecilia", not a week goes by without   
   >>> something getting totally fubarred   
   >>>   
   >>> Last month I plugged my laptop's only hdmi output into the AvAmp   
   >>> which feeds the 'smart' Samsung TV. I opened a beer and watched a   
   >>> movie. Now I do the same thing and the hdmi output seems to be   
   >>> directed at some non-existing   
   >>> additional monitor. The Av amp is being seen as a 3000x500   
   >>> or so device and no settings on the laptop monitor are possible   
   >>> because the mouse pointer is now on a non-existing   
   >>> monitor i.e. on a device that is not a monitor.   
   >>>   
   >>> A long time ago the kde System Settings (hardware/monitor)   
   >>> allowed the simultaneous i.e. identical image output, this kind of   
   >>> setting is nowhere to be seen. IT was the DEFAULT so IT just   
   >>> worked! Now If I plug the laptop directly into the TV it doesn't   
   >>> recognise the laptop. Both the TV and the laptop are 1920x1080, the   
   >>> TV and the AvAmp are both 'smart', so the logical conclusion is   
   >>> that Suse Leap is stupid?   
   >>   
   >> Using XFCE I get a popup, on both displays, asking me what I want to   
   >> do with them. If not, I press a key on my laptop keyboard, I forget   
   >> which, something about display change, and I get the same menu.   
   >>   
   >> Works perfectly.   
   >>   
      
   >   
   > Thanks, I'll have to try it with XFCE, mostly because it's my   
   > alternate DE (using it with Slackware and Artix). Are you   
   > hinting that this is a KDE problem?  I'm not saying that it's   
   > a Suse problem, I just plain can't know which it is.   
      
   No, but different desktops do things differently, and if one doesn't   
   work, another might work.   
      
   If it does work with XFCE and not with KDE in your case, then you should   
   report the bug.   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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