Physically added monitor is being ignored by PaperWM

Open btittelbach opened this issue 9 months ago • 0 comments

Describe the bug Connecting a new monitor while gnome-shell is running, causes the new screen to be ignored by PaperWM. e.g. Windows refuse to align on the monitor when moved there with keyboard shortcuts. No blue-highlighting appears when dragging windows to that monitor. Drag&Dropping windows on that monitor, will cause them to go back to another monitor-screen.

Curiously, this does not happen, when disabling and re-enabling a monitor in gnome-display-settings.

Since one of my monitors sometimes does not recover from standby, I often log into gnome-shell only to discover I have to power-cycle one of my monitors. After that, I have to disable and re-enable PaperWM in order to use the monitor.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

physically disconnect one monitor
log-on into gnome-shell
reconnect monitor
try to move windows to newly added monitor-screen

Expected behavior physically connecting a new monitor, while PaperWM is already running should produce the same result as virtually disabling and re-enabling a monitor in gnome-display-settings

System information: Distribution: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (Noble Numbat) GNOME Shell: 46.0 Display server: Wayland PaperWM version: 48.0.1 Enabled extensions:

May 05 '25 12:05 btittelbach