17
submitted 10 months ago by Liome@pawb.social to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

I'm considering buying second small touchscreen monitor, but I've been only ever running single monitor setup. How much hassle would it be? Is it possible to make mouse captive to primary monitor, and operate this secondary only as touch? Would running screens at different resolutions be a big problem?
Running KDE on Wayland, AMD graphics.

all 16 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 10 months ago

Multiple monitors pretty much just work. Wacom-type integration is just as immediate. I don't foresee any serious issues here, but do report back.

[-] CJOtheReal@ani.social 8 points 10 months ago

Works good on mine don't know about Wayland.

Only problem might come with resolution if the screen is a very unique size.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Wayland will make it easier

[-] CJOtheReal@ani.social 2 points 10 months ago

Than it's good.

[-] filgas08@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

don't know about wayland, but kde works almost perfectly, even though there are some very minor bugs.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Wayland makes scaling and inputs work as expected

[-] Mechanize@feddit.it 6 points 10 months ago

I used KDE with X11, an AMD card, and two different sized monitors for the longest time without any issues. It's pretty plug and play.

With Wayland I did try months ago and it just worked™, but I don't have a long experience with it.

Unfortunately, I've no direct experience with the touch integration.

[-] GreyFalcon@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

try it. let us know. from dude with 3 mismatched screens. sony huge screen thru sony strdn1080, and a 27 dell landscape and a dell 29 portrait. clustered to watch f1 with miltiviewer.

[-] shrugal@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've been using Nvidia+Wayland+Gnome with two different monitors for a while now, and never had any problems with this setup. The X11 setup before that had some issues years ago, but worked fine for the last few years before switching to Wayland.

I also connect different external monitors to my Intel-based laptop fairly often, and it works 99.9% of the time.

Multi-monitor is really just plug and play nowadays.

[-] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

What distro you on? Ever since fedora updated the Nvidia drivers it's been giving me non-stop issues

[-] shrugal@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Fedora as well, with drivers from RPM Fusion.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

If you stick with Wayland it will not be a problem. X will technically work but the touch screen input will likely be broken and the text will be blurry or to small.

[-] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

I'm using 3 monitors (one laptop and 2 desktop) fine on Gnome 3 with Wayland and integrated graphics. Minimal extra steps that were all Gnome related with a vertical monitor, so may not be an issue in KDE.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

No issues whatsoever. Recommend Wayland since you'll probably want fractional scaling

[-] FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

I had small issues with Wayland so I switched to X but I think DP to HDMI and after that HDMI to VGA makes problems with anything.

this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2023
17 points (87.0% liked)

Linux Questions

1063 readers
19 users here now

Linux questions Rules (in addition of the Lemmy.zip rules)

Tips for giving and receiving help

Any rule violations will result in disciplinary actions

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS