Prompt on wrong monitor

Kayo · 28 September 2024 14:54

It is a pretty long running issue in sddm since version 0.20

Update to 0.20: Session starts focus on wrong monitor

opened 12:38AM - 27 Jun 23 UTC

Upon updating sddm to the most recent release, I have now noticed that whenever …I start my session, focus starts on my secondary monitor and not my primary one. (The secondary monitor being to my right, while my primary monitor is in front of me). I have had to downgrade sddm to its previous version for the timebeing (which fixed this behaviour, obviously) and ignore it with my package manager, but I thought it would be helpful for me and maybe everyone else using Arch to bring this here. I have tested this in a virtual machine and have been able to reproduce it there. Any idea what could be done to fix this and yet still use the new version? I would like the behavior to go back to focusing my text on my primary monitor than it would my secondary. I have a thread here explaining more of the problem that led me to the git project here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2107020

There are a few ideas at the issue link how to configure /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup

Requires this line to be added into /etc/sddm.conf to work:

DisplayCommand=/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup

Be sure to get your monitor names with this command while being in a X11 session:

xrandr | grep -w connected

(I know you use X11, but I wanted to state that just in case somebody that normally uses Wayland also has this multi-monitor sddm issue and sees this thread. Monitor names are different across session types and the script uses X)