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Posted: **Wed Apr 06, 2016 8:33 pm**

Since today, i.e. 0.12.30, Factorio (through Steam) kills my dual-screen, multi-(virtual)-desktops setup under Linux (openSUSE Leap 42.1) with KDE Frameworks 5.20.0.

Setup:
As seen from log, I have two physical screens with different resolution, the larger being the primary screen.
In addition, I'm using multiple (4) virtual desktops.

Up to and including version 0.12.29 I could start Factorio on any virtual desktop on the primary screen in fullscreen and switch between the virtual desktops (via shortcut) without hazel (and Factorio even noticing).

Problem:
When I start Factorio in fullscreen, the loading screen starts correctly in fullscreen on the primary monitor, but around the 30-60% progress bar, the virtual desktops somehow get killed and I'm not any more able to switch between the virtual desktops with the configured shortcut (e.g. [Ctrl]+[F1-4] in my case). Factorio succeeds loading. When I quit Factorio, the virtual desktops keep broken. Relogging into my user account does fix it.

Factorio Log

Unfortunately, I haven't a log from 0.12.29 laying around as I've already tried it multiple times with 0.12.30, thus factorio-previous.log is identical to this one.

Edit [7.4.2016]: updated title

Posted: **Thu Apr 07, 2016 10:41 am**

I'm sorry, but I have no idea, how could Factorio make the virtual desktop fail, we didn't make any changes to the graphics library aside mac.
I'm moving it to 1/0 magic.

Posted: **Thu Apr 07, 2016 1:05 pm**

Thanks for the reply. I'll dig little bit into that and try launching 0.12.29 and 0.12.30 without Steam. When I think about it a little further, it might be affected/caused by some Linux/KDE packages updated between 0.12.29 and 0.12.30.

Posted: **Thu Apr 07, 2016 6:06 pm**

Tracked it down to a segfault of KWin with both 0.12.29 and 0.12.30. Seems to be not related exclusively to Factorio. Most of the KDE packages got updated on 5th April after/during I've played 0.12.29 the last time without issues.

This issue can be closed as not-a-Factorio-bug, I guess.

Posted: **Thu Apr 07, 2016 6:19 pm**

bohne2k7 wrote:This issue can be closed as not-a-Factorio-bug, I guess.

Moved to Not a bug.

Posted: **Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:52 pm**

Since 15.33 I have this bug again (it worked for me before).

@bohne2k7 did you open a kwin issue?

Posted: **Sat Aug 19, 2017 3:13 am**

LD100 wrote:Since 15.33 I have this bug again (it worked for me before).

@bohne2k7 did you open a kwin issue?

A lot of times if your window manager goes tits-up, you will find a clear-ish explanation of what happened in the Xorg logs. For most people, I think that's /var/log/Xorg.0.log. You could also check the output of dmesg, your "main" system logs (if you have systemd try running "sudo journalctl", and ~/.xsession-errors).

This type of thing could very well be some kind of video-driver-level problem. I haven't noticed anything change in my multi-monitor behavior in 0.15.33 and I run KDE Frameworks 5 with full opengl compositing (however I tick the box that says "programs can disable compositing" or whatever; factorio does turn my compositing off.

Posted: **Sat Aug 19, 2017 3:17 am**

Actually I just remembered another thing about my setup. I have a kwin rule for factorio under System Settings->Window Management->Window Rules. IIRC it is a relic from before factorio had the option to control what monitor it wound up on in full screen mode. It matches all windows types, "Window Class(application): exact match="factorio factorio", and the rule it enforces is under the size and position tab: "Position: force: 0,0." No wonder I've never had to mess around with the factorio multi-monitor settings, I'll bet that rule has been doing all the work for me this whole time.

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