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epp

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Registered: 2022-08-11

Posts: 21

[SOLVED] Desktop shifts to the right upon login

Yesterday and today, after logging in, the Xfce desktop shifted to the right by about 1/2 inch or so. This has only occurred once each day, so far. It leaves a black space on the left side of the display and when moving the mouse, it cannot go beyond the actual Xfce desktop.

Upon logging out and logging back in each time, without rebooting the system, the desktop then appears as expected. Is there anything that could be causing this, or something I can look at? The monitor is a Samsung 22-inch LED, using the HDMI connection.

I am on openSUSE Tumbleweed, with Xfce 4.20 and X11 is using its built-in modesetting driver. Thank you in advance.

> inxi -G
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS780L [Radeon 3000]
    driver: radeon v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting dri: r600 gpu: radeon resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,r600,swrast
    platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 25.2.2 renderer: AMD
    RS780 (DRM 2.50.0 / 6.16.7-1-default LLVM 21.1.0)
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.321 drivers: llvmpipe surfaces: N/A
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo de: kscreen-console,
    kscreen-doctor, xfce4-display-settings wl: wayland-info
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

Last edited by epp (2025-09-21 23:00:27)

gogogadget

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From: EU

Registered: 2023-03-19

Posts: 43

Re: [SOLVED] Desktop shifts to the right upon login

I would try to use the radeon driver (xf86-video-ati package), which should be the default, instead of modesetting.

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epp

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Registered: 2022-08-11

Posts: 21

Re: [SOLVED] Desktop shifts to the right upon login

I would try to use the radeon driver (xf86-video-ati package), which should be the default, instead of modesetting.

That appears to have corrected the issue. Thank you.