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I was hoping to have someone say that.
In desktop mode, you can press the Super+P (Win+P) keyboard combination to bring up a menu to choose which screen to display on. Keep pressing P while holding the other key to move forward in this list, then press enter. If you keep doing this, eventually you should end up on an option that includes your laptop screen. Alternatively, you can make Bazzite forget about your monitors by deleting the file it stores screen profiles in, then rebooting: https://ryan.himmelwright.net/post/reset-plasma5-monitor-config/
I just tried Super+P and did manage to get it to show on my laptop, but I still can’t get the image to show on the monitor. I tried hooking up my laptop to my tv and there were no issues. My monitor doesn’t have any issues with windows or mint either, just bazzite for some reason. And it didn’t have an issue when I was first installing it either.
Since you're now able to see the laptop screen with the monitor connected, try changing the monitor's resolution and refresh rate to a lower value. Plasma should hide options which are incompatible with your monitor, but maybe it's not doing that for you. (right click on the desktop and choose "display settings")
This fixed it. Thank you!
Awesome! If you experiment with different resolutions and the screen doesn't turn on again, wait 15 seconds. Without confirmation, plasma will restore the previous resolution on its own.
I'm impressed with your tech support skills!
Haha thanks, I guess being the family tech support does help practice!
Does the monitor turn on from standby when you plug the cable in? If the monitor has other ports, try those as well.
There's a typo in the article, it's ~/.local/share/kscreen
I assume bazzite uses kde?
if so, you should be able to press Super+P to open up the projection menu for changing how external monitors are used
KDE or gnome but I chose KDE.
I just tried that and it did sort of work, in that I can now use my laptop screen, but I still can’t find a way to get it to show on my monitor. I hooked up my laptop to my tv to see if that worked and it worked perfectly fine. My monitor doesn’t have any issues with windows or mint, just bazzite for some reason.