Bug 324441 - Open windows sometimes moved to the newly attached monitor
Summary: Open windows sometimes moved to the newly attached monitor
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 296673
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 4.11.0
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2013-09-03 05:38 UTC by mludvig
Modified: 2013-09-03 14:03 UTC (History)
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Description mludvig 2013-09-03 05:38:30 UTC 
I've got my laptop display (LVDS1) as a "Primary output" and an external monitor (VGA1). 
Sometimes when I attach the external monitor my open windows are moved there. It's quite annoying - I'd much prefer for them to stay on my laptop screen and only move what I want to move to the external monitor.

Toggling the "Primary output" star-icon makes no difference.

FWIW the laptop is Lenovo T420s and it happens with a number of different external monitors I use. Package is kscreen-1.0.1-11.1 from OpenSUSE KDE 4.11 testing repository.
Comment 1 Daniel Vrátil 2013-09-03 08:52:59 UTC 
Windows are managed by KWin, reassigning
Comment 2 Martin Flöser 2013-09-03 09:51:31 UTC 
there is not really a bug here. Windows open on the currently active screen. That is the screen with the active application unless you use the option to have active screen follows mouse.
Comment 3 Thomas Lübking 2013-09-03 14:03:03 UTC 
> Sometimes when I attach the external monitor my open windows are moved there.

I think what he observes is "bug" 296673

@mludvig
The windows are actually not moved, but your screen(s) move below them, ie. the global absolute position (eg. 200+100) is now on another screen.
This happens whenever screens are added to the top or the left.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 296673 ***