Dual Monitor quirks with Bazzite
I'm having some growing pains with Bazzite and my 2 monitors. I'm used to Windows making the taskbar be on the primary display or have it on both. In Bazzite I'm finding that the taskbar goes on the non-primary monitor. Is this common/designed as intended?
To add to this I'm also routinely disable 1 monitor when I stream. For context I have a Elgato HD60X plugged into 1 of the monitors (Monitor 1) , I disable monitor 1 when I stream so I can lock everything to monitor 2 so if I need to open anything it will always open on monitor 2, when I disable monitor 1 in Bazzite the taskbar disappears entirely, doesn't matter which monitor was primary it will just disappear. When I re-enable monitor 1 it does go back to where it was but I find it weird. Is there something I can run to refresh/restart the UI to enable the taskbar?
To add to this I'm also routinely disable 1 monitor when I stream. For context I have a Elgato HD60X plugged into 1 of the monitors (Monitor 1) , I disable monitor 1 when I stream so I can lock everything to monitor 2 so if I need to open anything it will always open on monitor 2, when I disable monitor 1 in Bazzite the taskbar disappears entirely, doesn't matter which monitor was primary it will just disappear. When I re-enable monitor 1 it does go back to where it was but I find it weird. Is there something I can run to refresh/restart the UI to enable the taskbar?
Solution
Got it. Honestly I like KDE, it's highly customizable which is a blessing and a curse.
There is not really a concept of a "primary" task bar. You customize each task bar on each screen individually. My guess is that when you disable a monitor, KDE goes "oh, new setup configuration, let me reset myself to nothing". So, if you add a task bar to your monitor where it is missing, it should remember you settings for each monitor state.
There are a whole host of customization you can do on the taskbars in KDE, but it does take a bit of fiddling to make it work how you want.
There is not really a concept of a "primary" task bar. You customize each task bar on each screen individually. My guess is that when you disable a monitor, KDE goes "oh, new setup configuration, let me reset myself to nothing". So, if you add a task bar to your monitor where it is missing, it should remember you settings for each monitor state.
There are a whole host of customization you can do on the taskbars in KDE, but it does take a bit of fiddling to make it work how you want.
