I recently added a secondary TV to my PC with KDE setup, in addition to the main monitor. I have it on a different position and angle and only turn it on for certain use cases, watching from different place. And I love the fact that I can create and build a dedicated panel with the widgets I want to have on that screen only. I don’t need every panel and functionality on that screen.

Just curious, is this something Microsoft Windows users can actually do? If not, this is something I would “advertise” for Linux.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    No, I mean if you plug in a second, different, monitor instead, does it show the panel.

    Like is the panel configuration saved for that specific second display, or any second display regardless of device?

    Just curious, it’s not that important and I could prob find out myself if I really cared to know

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      1 day ago

      Ah I see, a good question! Didn’t think about this and will test it right now. There is a third monitor not in use, so I will unplug my tv and plug the other monitor in, and back off course. Wait a second please… (please standby) …

      • so my first test was to just use the same cable on the same connection to my pc, unplug from tv and plug the hdmi cable to third monitor, result: no sadly its the same panel / bar that was configured for the tv
      • second test is i unplugged the hdmi cable on my GPU, and plugged in to the motherboard, result: still same panel from tv

      So my current conclusion would be it is not saved for the specific monitor, sadly. Maybe there is a configuration for this. It should be mentioned that my current KDE setup is not the default one and I have some customization that could have an effect on this maybe. The monitors and tvs are identified with their name, so KDE is able to tell the difference. Therefore technically it should be possible to have unique panels to each display. If there is no option for this, I might even suggest that in the KDE bug tracker. Very good question!