Hello there.

I’m a newbie to Linux and am still figuring everything out. I posted here a few days ago and you fine folks helped me with a problem. Now I’m in need again.

I decided to distro hop a little bit just to see what I like best, and am currently testing out Bazzite since I mostly use my PC for gaming at the moment and heard that one’s a good one for gaming. I’m using a laptop hooked up to an external monitor right now. After installing Bazzite I was asked what I wanted to do with the external monitor. Since I never use my laptop screen, I chose the option to only display on the external monitor. Unfortunately that didn’t seem to play nice, and now my laptop screen is black (obviously) but the external monitor is saying no input anymore. It accepted the input up until making that choice. Now I can unplug the monitor and use the laptop screen just fine, but my setup makes that quite annoying, plus I want to use my monitor obviously. The biggest problem is I can’t adjust the monitor settings without the monitor plugged in, and I can’t see anything with the monitor plugged in. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem? I’ve never faced it before in my years of using windows, and I didn’t have this problem in Mint either. I don’t really want to reinstall, but I will if I have to. If anyone knows of a solution without reinstalling I’d appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    17 hours ago

    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

    • BurntWits@sh.itjust.worksOP
      3·
      17 hours ago

      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.