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elrinv
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Hi there,

I'm looking for a workaround, and hope the community can help me find a solution to an interesting problem.

Let me start by explaining my situation briefly:
- I have a 4K main monitor on DisplayPort, and an old secondary monitor on DVI at 1080p.
- I use the old secondary monitor for some handy info on the side, music player, etc., but do all my work on my main monitor.
- Unfortunately (long story short) waking up after going to sleep, all my windows have been moved and resized to the small secondary monitor.
- A fix for this is apparently on the way, but who knows how long till I see it.

So, as a result I want to turn off Screen Energy Saving (so it doesn't turn off my monitors), but of course I do want to protect them by blanking the screen or running a "traditional" screensaver. Unfortunately neither of these seem to be available. Is there a way for me to do this?

Some background/system info:
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20220811
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.96.0
Qt Version: 5.15.5
Kernel Version: 5.18.15-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2
Monitors:
- Philips BDM4350 (3840x2160) set as Primary
- Ancor VE247 (1920x1080)
elrinv
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Update:
With a new GPU, now I have the secondary small monitor hooked up on HDMI and my main 4K monitor on one of the 3 DisplayPort outputs.
Same problem when waking up from sleep with all the windows moved over to the small aux monitor.
I tried to turn it off (still plugged in) before resuming from sleep, but the behaviour is the same.

No luck finding a screensaver or solving the issue remembering where the windows need to go.


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