How different Linux desktops handle dual monitors

[@treehuggerjoe9795]

what a waste of time!!!

[@Unknown-64209]

didn't ask

[@mayumiosu_7155]

pin of shame

[@Caiden-v9m]

It's not a waste of time for linux to handle 2 monitors at once.

[@stoutscientist]

I was wondering why I recognize unity, it's because my old overheating laptop had to switch to ubuntu 16 and that was the latest version at the time, but 17 was still in beta. This video brought back sooo many memories

[@kim-hendrikmerk4163]

The customisability of KDE is on a new level guys

[@smishyt]

KDE is the master of all Linux desktops

[@chinh4thepro]

@@smishyt no... window managers are. My personal favorite is openbox

[@thepiratepenguin4465]

I can't get KDE to detect my second screen, but it a breeze to customize

[@World_of_OSes]

​@@thepiratepenguin4465 Is that how you found this video, by searching how to get KDE to detect your second screen?

[@thepiratepenguin4465]

@@World_of_OSes Yip

[@radoslavl921]

"The fullscreen terminal" is actually called a tty. That is what runs in the background of every DE you can install.

[@hellohowareyall123]

hehe tty

[@Odswietny]

What if you uninstall your only DE?

[@nizzuta2611]

@@Odswietny You can reinstall it or install a completely different one from the tty

[@mini_bomba]

I use KDE (on Arch btw) and I am able to snap windows to the edge shared with another monitor... I've noticed though that you have to hover the window for a few seconds very close to the edge for the window to snap to that edge

[@patzminihd]

Using KDE on KDE Neon it's the same thing

[@unpatitoRU]

@@patzminihd but he said 'btw' 😭

[@googa9965]

Arch gang

[@JurassicJordan]

What about workspaces?

[@tiktok.4527]

I use ubuntu btw...

[@nid274]

In cinnamon dual taskbar can be created/composed by adding a new panel and then add required applets to the new panel as per your requirements like window manager, calander, user widget, menu button etc...

[@Aelitaa4]

On fullscreen terminal you should add info that the resolution is the same on both screens, it takes the smallest resolution of all the screens and displays it everywhere (I have one 1080p and 720p monitor and on CLI mode it displays 720p-like image on both monitors)

[@skylinefx049]

Not true for me

[@Vlad-1986]

That is only true if you load KMS. I think Nvidia can't do that (It couldn't years ago. I don't know now). In that case you get a 40x80 columns display

[@World_of_OSes]

In the video I used 2 monitors with differing resoltions; 1920x1080 and 1920x1200.

[@noob4321o]

Now there is a way to add a 2nd taskbar (panel) to the 2nd monitor on Linux mint cinnamon and mate

[@TheBSODFanProductions2]

What about xfce (Xubuntu), LXQT (Lubuntu), And LXDE (LUBUNTU 18.04)

[@dokerb3d60]

I think it is important to check how to change the picture on the desktop depending on the monitor and what options are available.

[@codewithdevhindi9937]

Nice video now i exactly know how i will get a dual monitor experience on ubntu

[@HardbassTV.]

Ubuntu 16.10, soo many memories

[@aprilnya]

for gnome 3/4x, you should use fedora workstation, since that's a completely vanilla version of gnome, unlike ubuntu or pop os which heavily modify it same goes for kde -> should use kde neon and unity -> should use ubuntu unity, which is unity on updated ubuntu and gnome 2 -> use something that uses MATE, which is updated gnome 2

[@ciongutkhan8470]

What does "vanilla" mean in thi context?

[@aprilnya]

@@ciongutkhan8470 unmodified (distros usually put a bunch of gnome extensions and weird default configurations, fedora doesn't, it just gives you default gnome with no extensions and no weird configs)

[@AshcroftConnorYTwillbetaken]

You did it just as i requested, great job!

[@World_of_OSes]

Do you think that the music was too energetic for the video?

[@technologytime69]

Yes

[@07whaleboy]

How does it say that it was posted 10 minutes ago when you posted the video a few seconds ago?

[@PolyStic]

Yes

[@07whaleboy]

No

[@technologytime69]

@@07whaleboy why???

[@dounia4146]

Thank you very much You saved my life, thanks a lot

[@World_of_OSes]

How?

[@dokerb3d60]

Also check monitor arrangment with multiple different orientations like lanscape, portait and how window snaping work with that setup

[@michaltran3081]

Yes, please!

[@roundabout-host]

You can add a panel on the second screen. Right-click on the first one and select Add Panel, you can select the screen edge you want.

[@World_of_OSes]

Maybe it has been updated since then (this video was made in 2021).

[@roundabout-host]

@@World_of_OSes You right-clicked the desktop, not the panel.

[@robertjohnson2464]

Yeah we're talking about dual monitor support on Linux and there's mixed results, the older it is, the worst it is.

[@Ou8y2k2]

Never been a fan of KDE, but it does well here. GNOME 3 and Cinnamon rule the roost in terms of usability for me (a newb).

[@smishyt]

Being a newb is a natural phase we all go through as Linux users. I gradually migrated to KDE until I found myself using it exclusively.

[@mactalk2871]

Same here, while I see KDE as being an awesome DE, I use Gnome because I am used to macOS because that's what I used before I made the switch to Linux a year ago. I doubt I will ever switch to KDE, because Gnome does almost everything I want out of the box, I only got 2 extensions installed.

[@psfgtech]

although initial system boot up with dual screens, when it went into hybernation, it booted back as single monitor

[@yeppiidev]

nice video, but what software do you use for editing your videos?

[@World_of_OSes]

Sony Vegas

[@yeppiidev]

@@World_of_OSes ah okay

[@bett0diaz]

Thanks for the video!!!

[@toastyYoshy]

As a Linux user, this was very relatable.

[@nonetrix3066]

XOrg pretty much just handles 2 monitors as a single monitor, this is mostly fine but causes some issues sometimes. For instance multiple monitors with multiple refresh rates act quite strange, unless on Wayland

[@NQV2009Offcial]

How about xfce (Xubuntu), LXQT (Lubuntu), And LXDE (LUBUNTU 18.04)?

[@andikasujanadi]

Nah, maybe the person behind this channel not Linux guy enough lol

[@LetGoMyLegosTyler]

@@andikasujanadi lol

[@alba4k]

Also changes between wayland and x11 tho Also, Weirdly, I dont have any of those problems on arch + KDE

[@coolkangaroo5179]

Very nice music

[@WalkthroughGeek]

Is Mint worth getting for gaming? I heard that people have problems with setting up multiple monitors there. It looks to work great in your video though.. just like in Windows. I have two 4k monitors. Would they work just like in your video? I've never used Linux before and I'm considering switching so that's why I have silly questions lol Maybe I should download it and try it out without installing it.. I love the looks of Mint and I've heard great things about Cinnamon.

[@Victor_TheProGamer]

Yo, nice monitor dude!

[@World_of_OSes]

Which one?

[@Victor_TheProGamer]

both monitors

[@pioficialisaacisrael]

We'll be right back (A gente volta jájá

[@samuelmatheson9655]

Brother got that triple Dell settup

[@jacobabdelfatahndioubnane84]

That seems to me as a demonstration but doesnt show actually how can enable double screen. How can i do it on Debian Bookworm 12 under a GNOME 3 Distribution? Thanks

[@raydoeslvr]

This is cool! Stefan

[@World_of_OSes]

Where does it say my name?

[@Odswietny]

@@World_of_OSes I guess they remembered it from one of your videos.

[@gamagama69]

wow i hate the duplicated login and shutdown in kde so much idk its so wrong. thank god its linux and can be disabled

[@ENNEN420]

KDE is cool and all but I will die an i3-gaps enthusiast.

[@Martin-bz6ol]

what about xfce?

[@yourlinuxguy]

Hey, Could you pleae help me with setting up my dual monitor setup, I want to use my iGPU AMD for my laptops internal display, and my dGPU for my extenrnal monitor that will be connected through the HDMI. I'm using arch-linux on my HP Laptop with AMD R5, and Nvidia RTX 3050. I have tried to do these things on my own, but either my iGPU will display both the monitors or either my dGPU will only show the External Monitor. Many people are saying that X can't do this move to wayland, if I don't find a solution soon enough I will move to wayland. Thanks.

[@DonkeyKong68]

And now try the same on monitors with different DPI and framerate. For example, fullHd 144fps + 4k 60fps

[@MrAlexds02]

A headache Osx or windows make it through but in Linux they don't

[@World_of_OSes]

I did two monitors of differing resolutions in this video. The one of the left was 1920×1080, and the one of the right was 1920×1200.

[@jesse7631]

Linux Mint still cannot span wallpapers correctly on dual monitors. It resizes the image (even if its dimensions are the width of both monitors combined) and has black bars on half of each side of the monitor. I don't know why they can't get that to work correctly. In GNOME it is possible. Of course KDE can't even give the option; it's as if KDE doesn't even know you have two monitors. Setting the wallpaper background only applies it to the monitor you have the dialog box open on.

[@sm3dwnftwofficialsaveukrai289]

Nice video! What's your computer used for editing videos with MAGIX Vegas Pro?

[@World_of_OSes]

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790 (8 MB cache, 4 cores, 8 threads, 3.60 GHz) RAM: 16 GB (2x8) DDR3, 1600 MHz Motherboard: ASUS B85M-E SSD: 250 GB Samsung EVO HDD: 10 TB Seagate Barracuda Pro, 2 TB WD Black GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB - kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5nRq2SBgbaFjdE Monitor: Dell U2412M (1920x1200, 24 inch) Build video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYaYaKqGpMqJqqM

[@sm3dwnftwofficialsaveukrai289]

@@World_of_OSes Ah, okay!

[@sm3dwnftwofficialsaveukrai289]

@@World_of_OSes Also, this video is sooo nice again. Can you do macOS after you have bought a new Mac? Please don't turn off comments because that is how prevents spam.

[@LexonBlackzz]

@@World_of_OSes What version of Sony Vegas Pro do you use?

[@World_of_OSes]

@@LexonBlackzz 13.0 which was the latest version when I first started using Sony Vegas instead of Movie Maker and I haven't bothered updating it since I first started using it because "if it ain't broke don't fix it". The latest versions is own my Magix now instead of Sony.

[@Setsuna111]

Hi. I use Mint Lmde4 on laptop & external monitor, new to linux & dont understand cli. Are there way to play games fullscreen on one screen & working on another? The games always displayed on both screen. Thank you very much.

[@Reed_Peer]

Does anyone find the first background music track terrifying and saddening

[@Manu-wm9fs]

Hermano mucho gusto me llamo Manuel Ortega, quería hacerte una pregunta. Me sucede que tengo dos monitores y tengo mi laptop con Ubuntu 22.04 pero tengo un problema con la conexión de un monitor. Ya que solo puedo conectar uno al HDMI del pc e intento conectar el otro con un adaptador USB a HDMI pero parece que normalmente estos adaptadores no vienen con el drivers para Linux, quería saber de qué forma le conectas dos monitores a tu laptop ubuntu?

[@technotedmodern]

GOOD CHANNEL

[@technologytime69]

Nice vid

[@juri324]

Would be interesting to see how Wayland changes things here...

[@TheTechMan5270]

Where's Mate Desktop Environment and dwm window manager (not windows thing)

[@duckiees]

Didn't know Linux could do this.

[@hilmiridho]

Linux mint is great, I like the design 🔥

[@Vlad-1986]

The concept is cool, but maybe you should had tested other Distros that have the "vanilla" install. For example, Ubuntu uses a lot of custom options for Gnome, and it behaves differently, so Arch or Fedora in that case?. Also tty will behave differently depending on which graphics driver you load, if you use KMS or not... I might have it wrong with the Gnome thing tho, as I don't use Gnome or Ubuntu to test if what you did is different or not.

[@Baseythewannabetechtoker]

Request: How different Mac Desktops handle dual monitors

[@Raihana-b3p]

hello, how did you set up the first one, gnome 3? how did you make it so they are seperate screens?

[@World_of_OSes]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/q33Enmh5frZshK8

[@BrowncoatInABox]

KDE for life man

[@feliksz]

Where's dwm?

[@World_of_OSes]

Right here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYXHnaBrpbmIY5o

[@feliksz]

Funny, laughed!

[@kabirakzaman]

One issue that I have with your Kubuntu Linux install is that you didn't updated your install to get the newer plasma

[@World_of_OSes]

It was running from a live USB.

[@kabirakzaman]

@@World_of_OSes Yeah it would've been better to see the current KDE Plasma to see how it reacts to displays....and I've tested Plasma 5.21 with dual displays and was able to snap from the middle of 2 displays if you get by what I mean

[@TheOwl-zg6si]

how to rotate the second screen?

[@xpower7125]

Ubuntu has Ubuntu desktop na fork of gnome

[@naga_serpentis]

I was thinking he was gonna try out Ubuntu 21.10 lol

[@trinhvanquan8443]

I use Ubuntu 22.04 but I miss the way unity handle multiple monitors alot

[@World_of_OSes]

There is a modern up-to-date distro called Ubuntu Unity, that is a fork of Ubuntu that uses the Unity desktop environment.

[@alephcake]

Mint is so pretty

[@ayoubelmhamdi7920]

why about tailing windows manager

[@_iambod]

try divide by zero in windows 93 (in browser google)

[@See_Sharp]

Latest Ubuntu Mate has some terrible Multi monitor support.

[@NQV2009Offcial]

How different MacOs desktops handle dual monitors,pls?

[@World_of_OSes]

I can't get my Mac OS VM to do dual monitors and I don't have a real Mac.

[@NQV2009Offcial]

@@World_of_OSes Why?😥

[@JimOkurku_]

@@World_of_OSes your profile picture lied (ofc a joke, dont take it seriously)

[@World_of_OSes]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYfLln-IppKShdU

[@laszlonebodrozsan3858]

YOU HAVE MY MONITOR

[@World_of_OSes]

Left one or right one?

[@laszlonebodrozsan3858]

@@World_of_OSes left

[@TheAtoldasROCAS]

cool, now, try to switch between two different displays, with different resolutions and sizes, for example, a 4k 55'' and a 1080p 27'', make a video showing it too.

[@World_of_OSes]

In this video I did use screens of differing resolutions; 1920x1080 and 1920x1200 (though both 24"). And you can see the implications of that at 1:30.

[@TheAtoldasROCAS]

​@@World_of_OSes no im saying to set one display on and off the other, with super(win)+p function, he does not scale well on x11, wayland does a better job in that regard, until the next reboot, he gives a black screen with the cursor only, obligating you to restart the machine, i think i'll do a video showing the issue

[@TheAtoldasROCAS]

@@World_of_OSes here's the video mate /watch?v=39FFkM2wOro and also i opened a bugzilla report

[@cesarsf12]

I think linux mint works better when you install it, anyways, try with gnome 4x on fedora

[@ShorkBoi]

There's also an extremely old Ubuntu.

[@World_of_OSes]

Isn't that still GNOME 2?

[@plumcakey]

@@World_of_OSes nope, gnome 1

[@World_of_OSes]

Ubuntu 04.10?

[@World_of_OSes]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4PciGSAh7WZiJo

[@duffelo]

Xfce missing

[@Crossover_crackverse]

What's this Monitor Name for Dell?

[@World_of_OSes]

Left: P2411H Right: U2412M

[@PolyStic]

Noice

[@Dan_213]

gnome 3 Ubuntu have a weird screen tearing

[@mehdinecef]

I almost forgot to subscribe

[@juanmartinmorabaiz6499]

False! In Mint yes you can add a second toolbar. And it works perfectly!

[@World_of_OSes]

What version of Linux Mint?

[@epicgamerman9136]

what about chromeos

[@LetGoMyLegosTyler]

wait.. ubuntu isnt unity anymore???

[@World_of_OSes]

No, it hasn't been since 2017.

[@LetGoMyLegosTyler]

@@World_of_OSes wow i must not have been alive

[@john_swanson]

Ngl Ubuntu works well

[@debuggyy]

You should have done xfce since i know it definitely has it's qwerks

[@filemonnn23]

Are u from Poland?

[@World_of_OSes]

No

[@Odswietny]

I am.

[@nikagrandtour]

KDE on top tho

[@frankieepurr]

Should of done gnome 40 or 41

[@World_of_OSes]

Pretty much the same result as GNOME 3. Tested with Fedora 35.

[@kquote03]

@@World_of_OSes ty!

[@samuelmatheson9655]

U need to update kde

[@LexTheCat]

Please change the music... it hurts

[@World_of_OSes]

How do I change it without re-uploading the video?

[@technologytime69]

@@World_of_OSes using KZbin editor

[@World_of_OSes]

What sort of music should I change it to?

[@Martin-bz6ol]

@@World_of_OSes like chill music

[@World_of_OSes]

Do you think that the music sounds better now?

[@punk4eva]

kde is best!!!

[@Supervisor360]

Now do 100 moniers

[@Odswietny]

Not WoOS, but that's impossible.

[@carlospal249]

try dual monitora on deepin and you will be bugged to fk

[@altairbueno5637]

So unity was rhe best

[@HenryKhuong]

6:20

[@oliverearnest7081]

Do it with 3 monitors

[@World_of_OSes]

Why?

[@oliverearnest7081]

@@World_of_OSes see how the OS reacts to it

[@07whaleboy]

1st

[@DigitalHandle]

Pizza

[@BeautifulAngelBlossom]

Linux had issues on my Thinkpad T500 and i try 2 Differtent Kinds and I noob to Linux but hay i got qustions and i get laughed at i went back to Windows My Qustions about Screen going Srabled or glitching on open up the led Force Reboot and people laughed at Guess what it don't do that on Windows . if there was way i could have fix it or been told where to start to fixing it would be happy girl but i got treated like joke so I never use Linux Again Screw Linux and it Commutiy that how i feel

[@sleeply4cat]

Очень плохо, треть сказанного не соответствует действительности.

[@World_of_OSes]

Вы про русские субтитры?

[@sleeply4cat]

​@@World_of_OSes, много фактических ошибок, к тому же, почти все различия, на которые ставился акцент - следствие разных настроек по умолчанию. Да и в принципе сравнение не имеет особого интереса, современные DE предоставляют одинаковый функционал. А вот посмотреть на работу с HiDPI, обработку разной плотности точек на двух экранах (4K + FullHD одной диагонали), поддержку дробного масштабирования, качество сглаживания/хинтинга и на подобные тонкости, кусающие за жопу в реальной жизни, было бы интересно.

[@World_of_OSes]

@@sleeply4cat В этом видео я провел тест с мониторами с разным разрешением. Монитор слева был 1920х1080, а монитор справа - 1920x1200. И в 1:31 я упомянул о некоторых последствиях того, как разные настольные компьютеры Linux справляются с запуском 2 мониторов с разным разрешением.

[@Manu-wm9fs]

Word of OSes, 🪖 ¿what adapters did you use to connect two monitors to your gnome3 laptop?

[@World_of_OSes]

My laptop has 2 video outputs; VGA and HDMI. Out of these two monitors, both of them have VGA and DVI, one of them also has DisplayPort, neither of them have HDMI. I connected one of the monitors to my laptop via a VGA to VGA cable and the other monitor I connected via an HDMI to DVI cable.

[@Manu-wm9fs]

@@World_of_OSes my pc has an hdmi port from which i connect my first display. What do you recommend to connect the second display?

[@World_of_OSes]

@@Manu-wm9fs Does your laptop have a DisplayPort or USB-C Thunderbolt?

[@Manu-wm9fs]

@@World_of_OSes Nice to meet you brother, my name is Manuel Ortega, I wanted to ask you a question. It happens to me that I have two monitors and I have my laptop with Ubuntu 22.04 but I have a problem with the connection of one monitor. Since I can only connect one to the pc's HDMI and try to connect the other with a USB to HDMI adapter but it seems that normally these adapters don't come with Linux drivers, I wanted to know how to connect two monitors to your ubuntu laptop?

[@Manu-wm9fs]

My computer only has usb 3.0 ports available, since the hdmi is occupied by my vertical screen

[@beepyshenanigans]

Nice vid