I am a garuda user for over an year now, and its pretty stable on my desktop. I recently purchased a samsung monitor and it connects well!
However when I try to switch virtual desktop on one monitor, the virtual desktops on other monitor are also getting switched, this should ideally not happen.
How can I fix this?
Hi there, welcome to the forum.
Please provide your garuda-inxi, as required by the template.
Without it this description is missing a context.
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Sure, the output of garuda-inxi is following
garuda-inxi
System:
Kernel: 6.6.2-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc available: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=10bb012f-80b1-4834-b834-50d7819480ae rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet resume=UUID=9bde3fb4-9817-48ef-bbb8-9f747d2c4b74 loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.9 tk: Qt v: 5.15.11 wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1
dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A715-41G v: V1.02
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: PK model: Azalea_PKS v: V1.02 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: INSYDE v: 1.02 date: 06/19/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 25.9 Wh (86.6%) condition: 29.9/53.0 Wh (56.4%)
volts: 14.2 min: 15.4 model: PANASONIC AP19B5L type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: discharging
Device-1: hid-f4:73:35:83:92:d1-battery model: Keyboard K480 serial: N/A
charge: N/A status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 3550H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Zen/Zen+ note: check gen: 1 level: v3 note: check
built: 2019 process: GF 12nm family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x18 (24)
stepping: 1 microcode: 0x8108109
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x64 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 4x512 KiB L3: 4 MiB
desc: 1x4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1571 high: 2395 min/max: 1400/2100 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2395 2: 2100
3: 1203 4: 1400 5: 1369 6: 1400 7: 1400 8: 1304 bogomips: 33535
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: nouveau v: kernel non-free: 545.xx+
status: current (as of 2023-10; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Turing code: TUxxx
process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-2022 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8
link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f99 class-ID: 0302
temp: 25.0 C
Device-2: AMD Picasso/Raven 2 [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5
code: Vega process: GF 14nm built: 2017-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
lanes: 16 ports: active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 05:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:15d8 class-ID: 0300 temp: 36.0 C
Device-3: Quanta HD User Facing driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-1:4 chip-ID: 0408:a061
class-ID: 0e02
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.9 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.2
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,modesetting,nouveau
alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa dri: radeonsi,nouveau gpu: nouveau,amdgpu
d-rect: 3456x1944 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 pos: top-right res: 1920x1080 size: N/A modes: N/A
Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: bottom-l res: 1536x864 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia nouveau drv: amd radeonsi platforms:
device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: nouveau device: 2 drv: swrast
surfaceless: drv: nouveau wayland: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
inactive: gbm
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: amd mesa v: 23.2.1-arch1.2
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (raven
LLVM 16.0.6 DRM 3.54 6.6.2-zen1-1-zen) device-ID: 1002:15d8
memory: 1.95 GiB unified: no display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.269 layers: 3 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: AMD
Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (RADV RAVEN) driver: mesa radv v: 23.2.1-arch1.2
device-ID: 1002:15d8 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 1 type: cpu
name: llvmpipe (LLVM 16.0.6 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe
v: 23.2.1-arch1.2 (LLVM 16.0.6) device-ID: 10005:0000
surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 05:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_pci_acp3x v: kernel
alternate: snd_rn_pci_acp3x, snd_pci_acp5x, snd_pci_acp6x, snd_acp_pci,
snd_rpl_pci_acp6x, snd_pci_ps, snd_sof_amd_renoir, snd_sof_amd_rembrandt,
snd_sof_amd_vangogh pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 05:00.5
chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 05:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.6.2-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.85 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-2.1:3 chip-ID: 8087:0029
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
lmp-v: 11 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 7c010c
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 19.31 GiB (4.0%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: SK Hynix
model: HFM512GDJTNG-8310A size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 80002C00 temp: 31.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%)
used: 19.31 GiB (4.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 576 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%)
used: 19.31 GiB (4.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%)
used: 19.31 GiB (4.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%)
used: 19.31 GiB (4.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 5.72 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 8 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 37.8 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 37.0 C device: nouveau temp: 25.0 C
Info:
Processes: 309 Uptime: 22m wakeups: 0 Memory: total: 6 GiB
available: 5.72 GiB used: 3.38 GiB (59.0%) Init: systemd v: 254
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 Packages:
pm: pacman pkgs: 1216 libs: 356 tools: octopi,paru Shell: fish v: 3.6.1
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.31
Garuda (2.6.19-2):
System install date: 2023-11-25
Last full system update: 2023-11-25
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager dracut
Windows dual boot: No/Undetected
Failed units:
it looks like the ith virtual desktop on each monitor are tied
With KDE I don’t think that the feature is possible at all. I rarely use an external monitor, but a quick internet search confirms this.
Maybe something will change with KDE6? Or maybe something has already been implemented using a Wayland session?
Take a look at this 18 year old KDE bug 
still under discussion…
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107302
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