Screens on laptop and external hdmi aren't registering correctly post after-02-16 update

[luzpaz]

I posted in the announcement thread^[1] that I have now encountered a situation where my display configs are messed up. I have a Dell XPS laptop running latest manjaro

$inxi -Gxx                                                                      
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Iris Graphics 540 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen-9 ports: active: DP-1,eDP-1 empty: DP-2,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1926
  Device-2: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-5:4 chip-ID: 0bda:5682
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.5
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
    dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1848 s-dpi: 96 monitors: <missing: xrandr>
  Monitor-1: DP-1 size-res: N/A
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 model: Sharp 0x144a res: 3200x1800 dpi: 276
    diag: 337mm (13.3")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: iris device: 1 drv: swrast gbm:
    drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.3.4-arch1.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Graphics 540 (SKL
    GT3) device-ID: 8086:1926
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.303 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
    driver: N/A device-ID: 8086:1926
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo,xprop

Operating System: Manjaro Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.6.75-2-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-6560U CPU @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Iris® Graphics 540
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: XPS 13 9350

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1. [Stable Update] 2025-02-16 - Kernels, Firefox, Qt, KDE Gear, GNOME - #93 by luzpaz ↩︎

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @luzpaz,

You’ve only provided enough information to guess what might be wrong. And the guess will be inaccurate, too. So more information in necessary. To that end, please see:

• Forum Rules - Manjaro,

• [HowTo] Provide System Information.

  At bare minimum we would need you to please provide a detailed description of the problem faced, as well as the output to:

  inxi --admin --verbosity=8 --filter --no-host --width
  

• [HowTo] Post screenshots and links,

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Hope you manage!

[linux-aarhus]

Plasma sometimes behave unexpected.

Quite often it can be fixed by resetting your Plasma configuration.

For a script to do the work,
please see → Applications / Manjaro Plasma Reset · GitLab

[luzpaz]

Thank you. This I think solved it.