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harksaw 12-02-2009 12:38 PM

Programs open up on wrong screen
 
I have a TV screen and a regular computer monitor - for some reason programs keep opening up on the TV screen rather than the monitor, even though I have the monitor selected as the "Primary Display" on the 'Nvidia X Server Settings" program.

I believe it's a KDE thing, but I don't know what setting to change.

I'm on Slackware 13, KDE 4.2.4. TIA!

SharpyWarpy 12-02-2009 06:17 PM

Maybe you just need to reverse the connections on the video card?

harksaw 12-04-2009 12:50 PM

Is there no way to do this in software?

MTK358 12-04-2009 01:09 PM

It happened to me a few times, I too just swap the connectors on the back of the computer.

harksaw 12-07-2009 09:18 AM

I've switched my two connectors and I still have the same problem - stuff often opens up on the wrong screen. It's actually happening more often now that I've switched them. It's very annoying when I try to launch a full screen game and it goes on my TV and blacks out my monitor.

I"m using KDE - I can't find anything in the settings that controls which screen new programs open up on.

SharpyWarpy 12-07-2009 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by harksaw (Post 3782777)
I've switched my two connectors and I still have the same problem - stuff often opens up on the wrong screen. It's actually happening more often now that I've switched them. It's very annoying when I try to launch a full screen game and it goes on my TV and blacks out my monitor.

I"m using KDE - I can't find anything in the settings that controls which screen new programs open up on.

How many video cards do you have? Two or one with two connections? What kind of connections are on the card(s) and what kind are you using?
It kind of sounds like a driver problem, I think you're on the right track. But we need to make things a bit more clear first. What kind of settings do you have in the bios for video? Did you install a new video card after an OS install? Did the card(s) give any type of trouble before you hooked up the tv?

harksaw 12-07-2009 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by SharpyWarpy (Post 3782866)
How many video cards do you have? Two or one with two connections?

One with two connections

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What kind of connections are on the card(s) and what kind are you using?
Two DVI connectors, one of which has a converter to HDMI that goes to my TV.

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What kind of settings do you have in the bios for video?
I'll check . .

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Did you install a new video card after an OS install?
No.
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Did the card(s) give any type of trouble before you hooked up the tv?
No

SharpyWarpy 12-07-2009 07:04 PM

I can't help with KDE, I use Gnome. But I think it has more to do with the nvidia drivers. Where did you get them? Did you download them from the Nvidia site?

harksaw 12-08-2009 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by SharpyWarpy (Post 3783345)
I can't help with KDE, I use Gnome. But I think it has more to do with the nvidia drivers. Where did you get them? Did you download them from the Nvidia site?

They are the nvidia 190.42 drivers downloaded off of nvidia's website.


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