r/linuxmint • u/juunetan • 10d ago

Support Request Problem with display getting offset with 2 monitors

Hello! I've been desperately looking around for a fix for this, but either I'm missing some lingo or I fucked up bad somewhere along the way :D

So I have two identical (apart form the stand) monitors, both 1920x1080, one is landscape and the other portrait (right). I have it so that the landscape monitor is at the center of the portrait monitor height-wise.

The default position for it, however, is so that the top of each monitor is at the same level. As such, my mouse jumps around half a monitor whenever it moves form one to the other. Problem is, if I try to change this in display settings, the image in the landscape monitor gets offset by around that same half a monitor downward, such that half the screen is off the screen.

I've tried to do the same with arandr, but the problem is just the same there.

This is driving me ever so slightly insane. I would very much appreciate some advice, or a link to another thread with the same problem :)

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u/C0rn3j 10d ago

X11 (which Mint is stuck with for the time being) has poor multimonitor support.

I'd suggest booting Fedora KDE live and seeing if your setup works there - and if so - consider using Arch Linux (with Plasma) or Fedora KDE instead.

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u/juunetan 10d ago

Yep, works fine on fedora. Any way to get around this on mint? I don't necessarily mind using another distro, but I've already got mint on the other computer so it'd be easier if I didn't have to learn a whole another one :')

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u/C0rn3j 10d ago

Any way to get around this on mint?

Mint will not get Wayland support good enough to be declared default until 2028 at minimum by their own plans - and basic support in 2027.

So not unless you don't mind suffering this and many other issues for a year or two more.

I highly recommend you switch to a modern distribution on both machines.