Manjaro dual monitor configuration. Installed is Manjaro with Gnome and wayland. I have 2 Graphic Cards on my PC, 1 Nvidia 1650 Super and the other one is Nvidia GT 610. However, the dual monitor setup won’t work on manjaro. Then I have tried Jun 27, 2022 · Hello guys. So far, it works like a charm. 12, (after trying this consumer grade toy Zorirn OS, i found that Zorin OS is nowhere near the quality, stability and relaibility of Manjaro, Not hate, not trolling, just personal opinion) Nvidia 470. 13. my screens’ refresh rate change, if there’s any audio playing it skips, then the computer goes into power saving mode. Oct 17, 2021 · Problem is when I’m trying to set TV to be on the left side - then all desktop icons and panels are moved to TV (even if monitor is set up to be main screen). I love it! Now I’d like to connect a physical monitor to Nov 24, 2022 · Hey everyone, I dual boot windows and Manjaro. My video card is an Nvidia GeForce GTX 560. I actually set the horizontal monitor as primary Oct 5, 2021 · While setting up dual monitor in Manjaro, I messed up with display configuration setting. 1. Currently I am running Manjaro 21. The external screen lights up, but KDE partially freezes: The mouse Aug 18, 2020 · I have a rather unusual dual monitor setup with 1 vertical and 1 horizontal. I recently reinstalled Manjaro on my partition. 18. i cannot turn the computer back on after this and a restart is the only way to get out of this. On Mar 23, 2022 · Hi, after about a year of running Manjaro XFCE on my Desktop system and two monitors directly connected to the graphics card I also wanted to transition my work notebook to Manjaro. When booting into Manjaro both monitors work up until I login, then it switches off and presents a black screen “Display Port No Signal”. this is my second post, apologies in advance for any errors made. I want the LH monitor as my primary monitor, with the RH monitor as an extension of the desktop. Oct 6, 2022 · Connecting an external monitor to my HDMI port shows a black screen. I think the display is detected though as the settings app shows the “join, mirror, single display” options. Currently, I'm using a single monitor in full HD resolution. Very often after resuming my Thinkpad from s2ram all the applications that were previously using my laptop screen are moved to the external monitor (defined as primary display May 29, 2022 · Hello, I have an issue with my two displays locked at 60Hz even though my main display is 144Hz (using an RTX 3060 Ti) . My setup is: Manjaro 21. Then, I made my laptop lid ignored by the system I also switched off laptop screen. My current XFCE setup is using 5 virtual workspaces, meaning 10 virtual desktops: 5 for the laptop screen + 5 for the external monitor. I have Jul 30, 2021 · System tray - dual monitor setup - how to set which monitor to display? Support bspwm troypiggo 30 July 2021 10:35 Nov 22, 2020 · Dual monitor setup: different gamma Support Graphics & Display JanSomething 22 November 2020 21:38 Jun 1, 2025 · I’m trying to set up two identical monitors (BenQ BL2420PT, 2560×1440 @ 60 Hz) on my ThinkPad T450s running Manjaro XFCE. Luckily, you can bind workspaces to a specific monitor, so you can easily switch to that monitor and use your displays more efficiently. The primary monitor is powered by a 1650 and the secondary monitor is powered by a 970. When I run neofetch, both GPUs are shown and when I run sudo mhwd -li it shows my drivers non-free. My GPU (GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti SUPER) has one HDMI port, which is currently connected to the Samsung UN32J4000AF (a 32-inch HD TV) and working fine. 0 with a 5. On boot the BIOS and GRUB screens appear on the LH monitor (what I want) The login prompt appears on the RH monitor (NOT what I want) Aug 19, 2021 · Hi All, I need some help/advice. Im trying to have a dual-monitor setup. As for right now, it’s almost broken. 3. It’s because I have a dual monitor setup. 🖥 System Setup Laptop: ThinkPad T450s OS: Manjaro Linux (latest) Desktop Environment: XFCE Dock: Lenovo UltraDock (with DisplayPort outputs) GPU Aug 17, 2020 · Hello y’all! I am reposting this from the reddit thread. Let me extend what the title says: I have a Razer Notebook, with an eGPU (AMD Hawaii XT / Grenada XT [Radeon R9 290X/390X]) connected through Tunderbolt (Razer Core) and two monitors. Recently, I haven’t used the external display for a while, but today I reconnected it. Is there any way to remove this or is this a job for Photoshop? Jan 13, 2022 · I am running Manjaro KDE with two monitors each powered by their own GPU. I have to toggle it with right super because the bar from the vertical monitor will extend to horizontal. I went to “System Setting -> Display and Monitors -> Display Configuration” and then I dragged the screens and I messed up my screen resolution and not able to revert it back. My default configuration Jul 2, 2022 · As you can see in the screenshot there is this black bar in between of my screenshot. 11-1 CPU - Ryzen 5 3600 GPU - GTX 1660 (full size desktop gpu) Monitor - 2x Dell S2721DGF 165Hz 1440p G-Sync compatible Two monitors connected with Displayport to discrete GPU So I decided to install Manjaro but with KDE and Gnome variant I got the same issue. I’m looking for solutions to create a separate panel for each monitor or at least only show panel on the primary monitor. As soon as I disconnect the working monitor the one that previously was not working is detected and works fine. It is not a problem, but a feature according to XFCE Team, which is rather uncommon. 4 XFCE minimal, with Kernel 5. What should I do? I’m very Aug 31, 2021 · Preface: I am new-ish to linux as my daily driver OS but not to troubleshooting. I used to regularly connect an external high refresh rate monitor with 1920x1080 resolution (165Hz). Firing up VNC on my Macbook will open xfce, three finger swipe left or right on the touch pad allows me to switch from one system to the other. Jun 19, 2022 · Select the secondary monitor, then click on Primary and apply Click back on the primary monitor, and set is as Primary again before applying Once this is done, it shows the primary desktop on the primary screen, which makes me think there is an occasional issue with loading the correct view, which I am unsure on what it is caused of. i am not good with computer when i use a dual monitor configuration, a problem sometimes manifests. I then went on with installing TigerVNC following the directions in the Arch wiki. I’m back to linux last weekend and I’m having some weird problem to find out how to tell to the linux system wich one is my primary monitor. Aug 11, 2021 · Convenient way without the need to remember the shortcut is to drop Display Configuration widget to system tray or desktop, you choose wherever you like it to be. I have proprietary drivers … Oct 1, 2021 · After super fast, smooth installation of latest Manjaro LTS xcfe I set up dual monitors and everything works fine. MY SETUP: PCIE-01 x16 - nvidia 1070ti - 01:00 1 monitor attached This card will be passed to a guest windows VM PCIE-03 x4 . The funny thing is that, just after boot my xrandr output is Screen Sep 12, 2020 · I setup Manjaro on my NUC with a monitor, installed SSH and then went headless. The situation is the following, I have two monitors: Asus VG-278 G-SYNC compatible, 1080p 144Hz LG UL-850W 4k 60Hz no g-sync I have connected the second display, the LG one but it wasn’t enabled so I’ve enabled it with xrandr. May 22, 2021 · Hey, Im pretty new to Manjaro and this is my first post here. Mar 14, 2021 · Hello I have a dual monitor setup and I’ve installed Windows on my HDD. I’ve installed Manjaro GNOME. Depending on the resolution + refresh rate one or the other monitor shows a grey overlay over the area that Jan 8, 2020 · Binding workspaces to monitors Using sway with multiple monitors can be a little bit tricky with workspace management. One works perfectly, but the other shows “Out of Range” — even though xrandr reports both as connected and active. I went into Display Configuration and attempted enable it with no success. I am using two May 14, 2025 · Hi everyone, I’m experiencing an issue with KDE and dual monitor setup. My laptop has a built-in display with a resolution of 2560x1600. Now, every time i shutdown or reboot my configuration disappears, leaving me with my small monitor as primary and the other as secondary (of course). 0 DE - KDE Kernel - 5. I accessed nvidia-settings → X Server Display Configuration and enabled the Sep 4, 2021 · I am trying to setup a dual monitor configuration on my Manjaro Gnome install; I have 2 monitors as follows: Display port → Dell 25" 1440P monitor HDMI → 768P monitor Each monitor works no problem when connected individually, however when both are connected the Display Port monitor turns off, and I cant get both monitors to display at the same time in an extended desktop setup. I decided to try linux so manjaro is my first linux (installed on my SSD). 10 linux kernel. The laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad P2 Gen. I went to hardware config and clicked on Auto-install proprietary drivers and rebooted, still nothing. I would like to have more space on the screen and instead of buying a new ultrawide monitor, I came up with the idea to use a second monitor. I looked at @bogdancovaciu 's solut… Jun 9, 2022 · Hi, I have a dual monitor setup that previously worked fine, but stopped working after I disconnected one monitor to use for something else and then reconnected. This can simply be done by the workspace command in your config file. i Mar 26, 2021 · Hi guys! I have a strange issue… I have two monitors attached to my PC and naturally I want to use the higher resolution one as my primary and the other as a secondary monitor. I've never done this, so how to get started? Oct 8, 2022 · hallo. When I boot from the install USB and select load Apr 18, 2023 · Hello! My thinkpad is always connected to an external monitor using the HDMI port. I have narrowed it down to something wrong in either the way ARCH, the kernel, (grub too?) handle the proprietary nvidia drivers, or the proprietary nvidia drivers / their configuration. The monitors are both connected via Displayport. 2 with a Intel i9 with integrated graphics and a dedicated Nvidia Quadro T2000 graphics card. When I have both monitors connected only one is detected and working. xx series driver, Nvidia Quadro P2200 videocard and dual Mar 11, 2023 · Hello everyone, I have decided to give Manajaro a go, previously Arch user, however I have a very annoying problem that I can’t seem to sort out. Also, Manjaro always uses the second screen before logging in. During the boot setup, for some reason, my lightdm loads on the main monitor, but my mouse on the second one, wich is 90º twisted in the phisical support, it also loads in the wrong side of the main monitor. It works on Windows fine. Sep 21, 2024 · I’m trying to set up a dual monitor configuration using two displays with HDMI inputs. Sep 27, 2025 · Display setup Primary monitor: 4K, landscape mode, scaled at 140%, 144 Hz Secondary monitor: HD, portrait mode, scaled at 100%, 60 Hz Jul 18, 2022 · I made fresh and clean install of Manjaro Linux 21. When I open up display settings and try to configure the monitor settings, it always resets from the previous config and never enables Aug 9, 2023 · Here’s what I have so far: I have two gaming monitors plugged into an RTX 3070, both running at 2560x1440 and 120Hz. otincn dukk upkmco jzmwb zi qljmnw talao0v3 9w3 kbls is