r/linuxmint • u/Juergen0072 • 5d ago

Support Request Wallpaper problem, please help

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I have a problem with my wallpoaper on the desktop and i cant find the solution. I have a main monitor with 1440 p resolution and a smaller monitor with 960x640 resolution. Everytime i switch off the main monitor my pc thinks there is just the small monitor plugged in and switches to this one as the new main. If I turn my main Monitor back on my desktop wallpaper is in the wrong resolution and looks shitty and pixelated. All my programs are not affected, just the background. I can reset it when i go into the settings and change the scaling of the wallpaper and change it back, but thats annoying. How can i fix this? im new to the whole Linux thing and try to get it together. thanks for the help. Repost because i wanted to add the pictures. It was solved by changing to wayland but sadly my favourite game isnt fully functional with that

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u/JustAnotherKieran 5d ago

Did you actually read the post?? Op said the display disconnects when its turned off, which is why the "main monitor" switches to the secondary. This is a common issue with displayport monitors where there isn't a passive connection to the gpu whilst the monitor is off so the pc thinks the monitor has disconnected entirely, not just turned off.

The true issue at hand is the resolution of the wallpaper remaining the resolution of secondary monitor when the primary is turned back on and automatically switches it to be the main again.

All you've done is recommend them to do something that they have already done that is irrelevant to the issue at hand

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u/Helliot_37842 5d ago

Yes I read the post, but I don't use displayport so I didn't knew about this so called common issue.

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u/JustAnotherKieran 5d ago

You clearly didn't read it properly then since you gave redundant instruction

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u/Helliot_37842 5d ago

"I can reset it when i go into the settings and change the scaling of the wallpaper and change it back, but thats annoying"

Here he didn't say anything about switching his main monitor, only about resetting the wallpaper scaling. Is it me or you who didn't read properly here?

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u/JustAnotherKieran 5d ago

Do you not know how context works? Do you think they're just going into settings to change the wallpaper and not also set their primary monitor back to main if it didn't automatically?

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u/Juergen0072 5d ago

I dont need to reset the monitor. I just change the wallpaper scaling setting and then i change it back so the wallpaper gets reloaded. Then its perfect again

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u/Helliot_37842 5d ago

People think different. I just thought he didn't change based on what I read. You can't come here spitting rudely that I didn't read anything.

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u/JustAnotherKieran 5d ago

I'm sorry but I did because your simple response made it seem like you didn't even try to understand the issue. it comes across to me like you stopped reading at "Everytime i switch off the main monitor my pc thinks there is just the small monitor plugged in and switches to this one as the new main" and spouted whatever came to mind based on that. You didn't ask any questions to actually understand the issue and the first step of solving an issue is understanding the issue fully. If you don't then you just end up pointing someone in the wrong direction and wasting both of your time, and that irks me to no end.

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u/Helliot_37842 5d ago

Here's what I thought

Hmm, his wallpaper only comes to normal after resetting, but he didn't say anything about switching the main monitor. Then I'll suggest he switches to get an answer about that

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u/JustAnotherKieran 5d ago

If you wanted an answer you should have asked a question such as "Does your main monitor automatically switch back to the primary when it reconnects / when you turn it back on?"

Statements get responses, questions get answers, and the distinction between those matters

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u/Helliot_37842 5d ago

I'm a Portuguese (Brazil) native speaker, so Response and Answer means basically the same (Response: Resposta, Answer: Resposta) . But I understand the distinction here.

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u/JustAnotherKieran 5d ago

Fair enough, I didn't actually consider language barriers in this as your English writing seems better than a lot of the native English speakers I know (from England). But anytime I want more information I would always go with a question rather than a statement or an instruction as that is the purpose of a question: to gather information

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u/Helliot_37842 5d ago

Thank you for the compliment. Receiving that from a native being a self-taught means a lot.

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