The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[The Saltening]

Lol, I was thinking of asking if you had a second 1440p monitor. Did you try setting your primary monitor as your 4K display in KDE's settings? That could be affecting the game.

Edit: Another anecdote is that for some reason within the last year or two, proton would always display on my main monitor but get the incorrect monitor 's resolutions when it made an Xwayland window, so every time I booted my system, or the Xwayland session would be restarted, I would have to set my primary monitor with xrandr so games would work properly. No idea if this was just my system fucking up or what, but eventually it seems to have fixed itself, or someone else got annoyed enough and actually made a bug report.

My 4k monitor is my primary. Every solution I have found has not worked

 

[The Count of Monte Cristo]

My 4k monitor is my primary. Every solution I have found has not worked

What is your screen positioning like, is your main at 0,0 coordinates or is your secondary monitor at 0,0. Believe it or not I've also had that shit have an effect on proton fucking up.

 

[The Saltening]

What is your screen positioning like, is your main at 0,0 coordinates or is your secondary monitor at 0,0. Believe it or not I've also had that shit have an effect on proton fucking up.

How do I check? I have them side by side with my 1440p monitor on the left

that fixes it. But now my secondary monitor in software is on the wrong side compared to where it is physically.

 

[The Count of Monte Cristo]

How do I check? I have them side by side with my 1440p monitor on the left

that fixes it. But now my secondary monitor in software is on the wrong side compared to where it is physically.

See what the output of kscreen-doctor --outputs is, it should say in the geometry section the coordinates, and the resolution. Though honestly a dumb workaround is just turning your secondary monitor off, launching the game, then turning your secondary monitor back on every time you play the game for the time being.

 

[The Saltening]

See what the output of kscreen-doctor --outputs is, it should say in the geometry section the coordinates, and the resolution. Though honestly a dumb workaround is just turning your secondary monitor off, launching the game, then turning your secondary monitor back on every time you play the game for the time being.

Geometry: 2048,0 3072x1728
this is what it is outputting

doing the off and on trick when the monitor comes online the position of the screen changes so menus are not clickable.

stuff like this absolutely kills linux. its such a normal thing that you can put your monitor anywhere you want. I have had this monitor on the left side for over 10 years and now it doesnt work.

 

[The Count of Monte Cristo]

Geometry: 2048,0 3072x1728
this is what it is outputting

Your setup is probably similar to mine. My main monitor is Geometry: 0,593 3072x1728 secondary is Geometry: 3072,0 3072x1728 except my other monitor is also 4K. The only other thing I can think of is maybe swapping the order your monitors are plugged in, maybe its just reading the first DP or HDMI it sees? My main monitor is DP-1 and secondary is DP-2, you could try doing something like that and seeing if that has any effect on it too.

 

[The Saltening]

Your setup is probably similar to mine. My main monitor is Geometry: 0,593 3072x1728 secondary is Geometry: 3072,0 3072x1728 except my other monitor is also 4K. The only other thing I can think of is maybe swapping the order your monitors are plugged in, maybe its just reading the first DP or HDMI it sees? My main monitor is DP-1 and secondary is DP-2, you could try doing something like that and seeing if that has any effect on it too.

I did that already. I even swapped my secondary to hmdi so that my main monitor is first in line

I just need a way to put my second monitor on the left and keep my main monitor at 0,0 but nothing will let me do that

 

[The Count of Monte Cristo]

I did that already. I even swapped my secondary to hmdi so that my main monitor is first in line

I just need a way to put my second monitor on the left and keep my main monitor at 0,0 but nothing will let me do that

KDE settings, in the monitor section should let you rearrange your monitors, just line them up so your main is on the left, and keep your secondary so its at or below 0 on the Y coordinate. It might fix your issue, it might not, I havent had that issue in a long time with proton. Honestly this might be some weird wine wayland bug youre having where it selects the non primary monitor?

 

[The Saltening]

KDE settings, in the monitor section should let you rearrange your monitors, just line them up so your main is on the left, and keep your secondary so its at or below 0 on the Y coordinate. It might fix your issue, it might not, I havent had that issue in a long time with proton. Honestly this might be some weird wine wayland bug youre having where it selects the non primary monitor?

If I reposition the second monitor to anywhere except where I want it the problem is fixed. Main monitor needs to be at 0,0 but having my second monitor on the left forces the main to not be at 0,0.

 

[The Count of Monte Cristo]

If I reposition the second monitor to anywhere except where I want it the problem is fixed. Main monitor needs to be at 0,0 but having my second monitor on the left forces the main to not be at 0,0.

Yeah, you cant have negative numbers for monitor coordinates I think. So main needs to be on the left, and have your secondary to the right but not above the main on the Y coordinate, so that your main stays at 0,0. I got a huge ass headache trying to figure this shit out btw.

 

[The Saltening]

Yeah, you cant have negative numbers for monitor coordinates I think. So main needs to be on the left, and have your secondary to the right but not above the main on the Y coordinate, so that your main stays at 0,0. I got a huge ass headache trying to figure this shit out btw.

Yeah this is day 2 of a Linux induced headache.

My current solution is to just put my monitor under my main in software. I'll have to adjust until it's fixed

 

[ZMOT]

Arch is many things, I’ve used it before, but it’s a massive ball ache to get up and running. Even with the reintroduction of archinstall, you still need to do the work to get X11, a desktop environment, Firefox, and insert applications here up and running. That’s not even getting into its rolling release nature. Breakages are rare, but they do happen and it’s really easy to get too comfortable, pacman -Syu, and suddenly you’re at a text prompt when rebooting because you didn’t check the Arch home page for news, didn’t skulk the forums for signs of trouble, and all that painfully boring but still necessary stuff.

that's why I like opensuse, because you get the same "it just werks" fedora experience, but without the footfaggotry and pseudo "we own linux" asshattery.
you have to add the packman repository for some non-free stuff like h264 manually but that's pretty seamlessly integrated these days.

The unexplained writing BS is even if I use another version of Firefox so I don't think it's a profile thing. And the writing goes on even if I'm offline or browser is idle. Whatever it's writing it doesn't change the available space left on the drive, but what the hell is FF constantly writing and writing? And FF writes ~40x more than it reads.

iirc that goes way back, I remember when SSDs were coming up and amount of bytes written were still a point of concern, firefox was one if not the biggest causes for that. might have something to do with sessionstore/crash recovery.

 

[The Count of Monte Cristo]

Yeah this is day 2 of a Linux induced headache.

My current solution is to just put my monitor under my main in software. I'll have to adjust until it's fixed

That's pretty much been my go to since I began using linux as my daily driver in late 2016, find a workaround, and wait for a fix. Not saying I havent submitted my fair share of bug reports in that time though. I will say though that for every headache I've had on linux I think I've had 2 or 3 times more headaches based on some niche shit I want to do on windows that either isn't possible or requires a huge amount of duct tape hacky workarounds.

 

[Slav Power]

One step closer to fully being able to make the switch back to Linux for some proper HDR vidya gaming.

I find it amusing that the KDE HDR hype got placed in-between a reply chain revolving weird display issues on Linux. Can't get any more Linux than that.

 

[ZMOT]

Yeah, you cant have negative numbers for monitor coordinates I think. So main needs to be on the left, and have your secondary to the right but not above the main on the Y coordinate, so that your main stays at 0,0. I got a huge ass headache trying to figure this shit out btw.

panels are independent tho, tripped me up the first time when my taskbar wouldn't wanna stay on the "primary" monitory (that's the way windows handles it).
might be worth checking if KDE handles it similarly for games.

 

[Akerman]

panels are independent tho, tripped me up the first time when my taskbar wouldn't wanna stay on the "primary" monitory (that's the way windows handles it).
might be worth checking if KDE handles it similarly for games.

Yeah, that's why I was stoked for the cloning of panels update for KDE. I have it cloned on every monitor now.

 

[The Saltening]

I find it amusing that the KDE HDR hype got placed in-between a reply chain revolving weird display issues on Linux. Can't get any more Linux than that.

I can not wait until HDR just works. All my issues so far would be solved if HDR and FSR4 just worked out the box. The bugs I am trying to fix are caused by trying to get HDR and FSR4 working.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Debian 12.11 surprise bombed me with a huge ass update on my LMDE machine.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

might have something to do with sessionstore/crash recovery

Is there a chance that at least some of the mysterious endless writing is to RAM and not the drive? And why does that use so much data? Shouldn't a session just be the URLs?

And is there a way to disable all session restoring?

 

[The Saltening]

I gave my room mate a linux tour. I dont think he will use it but he is also dreading windows 11.

I would like to thank microsoft for forcing me to use linux